Chapelain Midy (illustrateur) - Les mille et une nuits - 1964

Discover this magnificent edition of The Thousand and One Nights, published by Union Latine d’Éditions and illustrated by Chapelain-Midy, with wood engravings signed Gilbert Poilliot. Prefaced by Paul Morand, this rare edition consists of 8 volumes.
Large in-8°, skivertex binding by the publisher under cases. One of eight hundred copies printed on art-fil paper from the papeteries de Renage, out of a total print run of five thousand copies.
An ideal collectible piece for lovers of fine literature and illustrated books.
Volume I: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), XII pages (preface), 296 pages, (5) pages with blank pages, 7 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume II: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 318 pages, (4) pages (table, 3 pages), 4 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume III: 324 pages, (5) pages with blank pages, 5 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume IV: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 340 pages, (5) pages with blank pages, 5 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume V: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 296 pages, (3) pages with blank pages, 5 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume VI: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 259 pages, (5) pages with table, 4 pages with blank pages, 5 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume VII: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 258 pages, 5 color wood engravings outside the text; Volume VIII: (7) pages with front matter (4 pages, half-title, title page, pagination), 305 pages, (6) pages, (justification, 5 pages with blank pages), 4 color wood engravings outside the text.