The Arabian Nights
(Illustrated By Rene Bull)

Filed Under Rene Bull, Pre 1920, Illustrated | 18 Comments

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Published Date: 1912

Contains 20 Coloured Plates

Bookseller:

The New Street Book Shop
515 N New Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018 (USA)
Phone: 610 868-3411

Notes:

We are looking for additional information about this book. No other copy of this edition appears to be available for sale online. Possible first edition?

Contributions:
Thanks to Steve Gertz from Dave Brass Rare Books who kindly contributed the following information:

Info on the book and Rene Bull can be found at:

Arabian Nights Books

and

http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/public/author_profile.php?id=743

OLCL notes a British edition London: Blackie & Son, n.d. 352pp., 15 plates.

Though Bull was an Irish artist the London edition cannot be assumed by using the standard Follow The Flag formula - to be the first edition: Fewer plates than the 1912 NY:Dodd, Mead edition and the Blackie edition is undated. I think it safe to say that the 1912 Dodd, Mead edition is the true first.For further documentation and reference see Houfe, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators & Caricaturists 1800-1914.

Best,
Steve Gertz
David Brass Rare Books