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65 - GALLAND (Antoine). The Thousand and One Nights: Arabian Tale…
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GALLAND (Antoine). The Thousand and One Nights: Arabian Tales. An edition illustrated by the finest French and foreign artists, revised and corrected in accordance with the first edition of 1704; supplemented by a Dissertation on the Thousand and One Nights, by Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, Ernest Bourdin & Co., [1838–1840]. 3 volumes in-4, light-coloured half-shagreen with corner pieces, smooth spines decorated with gilded romantic metalwork, title and volume number gilded, illustrated covers in blue and gold preserved (Niédrée). Vol. I. [2] ff., VIII–482 pp. Vol. II. [2] ff., 576 pp. Vol. III. [2] ff., 482–[1] pp. 3 frontispieces, the first of which is printed in brown and gold and features a medallion portrait of Galland, 3 illustrated title pages (the same for each volume) and 19 separate illustrations; several hundred illustrations within the text, including vignettes and headpieces for the titles and at the end of the nights, by Tellier, Levilly, Girardet, Baron, Français, Marville, Bapon, Roussel, Hallamel, Wattier, Laville, … etc. Printed by Lacrampe. (Chauvin IV-39.) With the 4-page prospectus bound at the end. A large tear, with no loss of text, on pp. 339–340 of vol. III. Originally published in 100 instalments, the Bourdin edition is the most sumptuous edition of Galland from the Romantic 19th century. This edition is also the second to reproduce the presumed portrait of Galland on the frontispiece in the form of an engraving by Morel, based on a painting by the court artist Hyacinthe Rigaud. This print is also believed to have been used to create the bust of Galland for the monument erected in his honour in his hometown of Rollot in 1851. Originally from Saarbrücken, the bookbinder and gilder Jean-Édouard Niédrée (1803–1854) took over from Muller (himself the successor to Thouvenin) in 1836 and practised until his death in 1854. Based on the Passage Dauphine in Paris, his workshop was run by his widow until 1861, before being taken over by his son-in-law Philippe Belz under the name Belz-Niedrée. A few dark spots on the leather (more pronounced on the back cover of the second volume), a few minor scuffs on the corners; otherwise a very fine copy, free from foxing (apart from the endpapers), in a lovely romantic binding of the period.
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