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Charles Folkard – Illustrations for Arabian Nights 1912

Charles James Folkard, British Illustrator – was a prolific children’s book illustrator. During his long career, he did illustrations of many children’s books, some most notable are the Arabian Nights, Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the Aesop’s Fables.

Arabian Nights, the stories of one thousand and one nights.  The stories that never ends … is a book that I’ve read and re-read countless to times over the years. I can never forget the first time I met Sindbad the Sailor in his grand palace nor Alibaba in the treasures cave.

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment.

Arabian Nights stories is indeed a treasure which gave countless illustrators the inspiration to work on the illustrations for those magical tales to this day and many more future generations. Many great illustrators have worked on the Stories of Arabian Nights, including Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Virginia Frances Sterrett, E.J. Detmold, Maxfield Parrish, Willy Pogany just to name a few and now the work of Charles Folkard.

Presenting the First edition of Arabian Nights, with illustrations by Charles Folkard . Published by A.C. Black, London, 1912.

Art Gallery: Charles Folkard – The Arabian Nights 1912

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