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Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit by ARABIAN NIGHTS MARDRUS J.C.

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit
Author
ARABIAN NIGHTS MARDRUS J.C.
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1920. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) MARDRUS, J.C. Le Livre des Mille Nuits et Une Nuit. Traduction Littérale et Complète du Texte Arabe par le Dr. J.C. Mardrus. Paris: Fasquelle, circa 1920. Eight volumes. Large quarto, contemporary half green calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines with red morocco onlays and spine labels, raised bands, patterned paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $4000.Lovely illustrated edition of Mardrus’ colorful French translation of the Arabian Nights, illustrated with 156 color reproductions of intricate illuminated miniatures from Persian and Hindu manuscripts, very handsomely bound.The stories now known collectively as Alf Layla wa-Layla (One Thousand Nights and a Night)—the earliest manuscript of which dates from the 14th century—""have become part of the common heritage of Western and world literature"" (Barron, 2-4). ""Mardrus' translation caught the literary mood of the time… [His] version of the Arabian tales was a belated product of fin-de-siècle taste, a portrait of a fantasy Orient, compounded of opium reveries, jeweled dissipation, lost paradises, melancholy opulence and odalisques pining in gilded cages… T.E. Lawrence [described] the Mardrus version as 'Much the best version of the Nights in any language'"" (Irwin, 36-9). Text in French. Mardrus' translation first appeared 1889-1904. See Clute & Grant, 51. Spines uniformly toned, gilt bright. A beautifully bound and illustrated set in near-fine condition.
Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Dombey and Son
Author
Dickens, Charles
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt (binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun). Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound without half title else complete, with vignette title, eight-line errata, and all 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Housed in a custom slipcase. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career-concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Fine.

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