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Lot 367

LETCHFORD, Albert (1866?1905), illustrator. Series of Seven...

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LETCHFORD, Albert (1866?1905), illustrator. Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R.F. Burton?s ?Arabian Nights.? London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. Imperial folio (566 x 441 mm). Illustrated with 70 full-page plates after paintings by Letchford, and a full-page portrait of Capt. Burton. Plates; with titled and numbered guards (scattered re-margining; occasional tears, smudging and soiling, not affecting plates, which have generous margins). Period half chocolate morocco over blue cloth, spine with raised bands, diced and lettered compartments (covers rubbed and slightly cracking). CHOICE EDITION DE LUXE, Series C of the large paper edition, one of 250 copies (this copy unnumbered).