Notes: No publisher date. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, front hinge loosening. iv, 120 pp. Color frontispiece, engraved plates and cuts by J. Watson Davis, color inset on front board. Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights), despite not being part of the original text; it was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland, based on a folk tale that he heard from the Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. |