Joseph-Charles MARDRUS. Story of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. - Lot 57

Joseph-Charles MARDRUS. Story of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Peking, Presses du Pei-T'Ang pour Paris, Crès, 1914. 2 narrow in-4 volumes, Chinese-style stitching, green brocaded silk slipcase with Chinese-style closure. I. (3f.)-39f. / II. Ff.40 to 87 Second edition of the translation of the Histoire d'Aladdin, published in the Collection coréenne, edited by Victor Segalen in Peking. Third and last title in the Korean collection, which was discontinued mainly because of the First World War. Black printing on folded double pages, illustrated with ornamentation inspired by Arabic characters. Limited edition of 630 copies, this one of the top 30 on large tributary paper (no. 11), bearing an unidentified ex-dono, dated 1953, in ink on the slipcase.