Saturday, May 11, 2013

Color Illustrations from the Book "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" - 1913


The Arabian Nights' Entertainments 
Based on a translation from the Arabic by Edward William Lane
Selected, edited and arranged for young people by Frances Jenkins Olcott 
With Fifteen full-page illustrations by Monro S. Orr

Read the full book here


Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves


As soon as I throw some stones out of my chamber window come out 


Be restored to thy original form


Give me what is my due, that I may go


He placed her behind him, and soared upward into the sky


Immediately a Genie of enormous size rose out of the earth


The Caliph Smiled (oldarts.info)


The Magic Carpet 


The Sheikh Abdelsamad 


The old man and the sea


The people fled with their daughters


The smoke collected and became an afrite


There arrived a great sage versed in the wisdom of the philosophers


When we beheld him we were filled with dread and terror 


Who will change old lamps for new ones


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