Talk:Stories from the Arabian nights (Housman, Dulac)

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Djvu file exists at IA

Ideally this should be migrated over to a transcribed version based on the scans. Must be uploaded locally as it's not out of copyright in EU, and thus can't be on Commons. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:01, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Mis-identified source

The source text is mis-identified here, following Internet Archive.

The book digitized at Internet Archive (ID: storiesarabian00housmiss) is "Published by Hodder and Southton, Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Nottingham", no date. It contains 9 Contains, 20 Illustrations, and runs to page 319.

The 1907 collection, retold by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, contains 6 stories --the first 6 of 9 here, less than half of the text-- and 50 illustrations (US ed. at HathiTrust Digital Library, with Preface by Housman presumably, pp. v-x).

The 7th of 9 stories, here "The History of Badoura", pp. 141-200, may be the text of Princess Badoura: A Tale from the Arabian Nights (Hodder & Stoughton, 1913), credited as retold by Laurence Housman (at HathiTrust Digital Library, with an introduction by Housman presumably, pp. 1-4).

The 8th and 9th of 9 stories, Sindbad and Aladdin, which span pp. 203-319 here, match the first two of 4 stories in Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights (Hodder & Stoughton, 1914), credited only to Edmund Dulac (at Internet Archive, with no text but the 4 stories).

--P64 (talk) 22:15, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Are there any textual issues that demonstrate it to be a different edition from the one in the Internet Archive link? Near as I can tell they're the same--the old edits even have the page numbers which match. Prosody (talk) 23:15, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

The Wikisource text may be an incomplete transcript, accurate as far as it goes, of the mis-catalogued Internet Archive collection. Is that what you mean?

I mean that the work is mis-identified here, "Stories from the Arabian nights (1907)", in the same way it is mis-identified at Internet Archive.

I am looking for more information about the various Arabian Nights books by Laurence Housman in the Library of Congress (Browse). --P64 (talk) 17:48, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

The 319-page 9-story collection is not in LC Online Catalog but I viewed dozens of WorldCat library records and found two that fit:

• as [1922] http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317815491] "319 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm"; "Date of publication from the English catalogue."
• as [1924?] http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/739344701 "319 pages, [34] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm"

The Boots Pure Drug edition with e-copy at Internet Archive contains only 20 plates. I found "Boots" mentioned only in one very incomplete record, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9718312 as 319-page and "[1907?]"

Another WorldCat search ("boots pure" hodder stoughton) suggests that no H&S books published for Boots have explicit dates (search results). The library inferences and guesses are all in the first third of the 20th century.

Some notes on the text will follow. --P64 (talk) 20:05, 26 September 2017 (UTC)