![- RIDLEY (James). The Tales of the Genii, or The Charming Lessons of Horam, Son of Asmar. Work translated from Persian into English by Sir Charles Morell, formerly ambassador of the English establishments in India, at the Court of the Great Mogul; and into French on the English translation [by Robinet]. With XIII figures. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1767, 3 vols. in 12, with 13 engraved plates hors-texte, unsigned, including a frontispiece, marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, cherry and havana title and tomaison, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, tr. mouchetées de rouge. Binding of the period. A good copy. First edition of the French translation (it was reprinted in 1782). Morell is the pseudonym of James Kenneth Ridley (1736-1765), whose main literary contribution is precisely formed by this pastiche of oriental tales, published in 1764 under the unequivocal title of Tales of the genii, with a massive borrowing of the narrative procedures of the Arabian Nights. Cohen, 894-95. Ex-libris bookplate with fleur-de-lis.](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/fullHD/6/115165/b292c5f25f373b4909c8c765bd20d997)
- RIDLEY (James). The Tales of the Genii, or The Charming Lessons of Horam, Son of Asmar. Work translated from Persian into English by Sir Charles Morell, formerly ambassador of the English establishments in India, at the Court of the Great Mogul; and into French on the English translation [by Robinet]. With XIII figures. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1767, 3 vols. in 12, with 13 engraved plates hors-texte, unsigned, including a frontispiece, marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, cherry and havana title and tomaison, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, tr. mouchetées de rouge. Binding of the period. A good copy. First edition of the French translation (it was reprinted in 1782). Morell is the pseudonym of James Kenneth Ridley (1736-1765), whose main literary contribution is precisely formed by this pastiche of oriental tales, published in 1764 under the unequivocal title of Tales of the genii, with a massive borrowing of the narrative procedures of the Arabian Nights. Cohen, 894-95. Ex-libris bookplate with fleur-de-lis.
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- RIDLEY (James). The Tales of the Genii, or The Charming Lessons of Horam, Son of Asmar. Work translated from Persian into English by Sir Charles Morell, formerly ambassador of the English establishments in India, at the Court of the Great Mogul; and into French on the English translation [by Robinet]. With XIII figures. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1767, 3 vols. in 12, with 13 engraved plates hors-texte, unsigned, including a frontispiece, marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, cherry and havana title and tomaison, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, tr. mouchetées de rouge. Binding of the period. A good copy. First edition of the French translation (it was reprinted in 1782). Morell is the pseudonym of James Kenneth Ridley (1736-1765), whose main literary contribution is precisely formed by this pastiche of oriental tales, published in 1764 under the unequivocal title of Tales of the genii, with a massive borrowing of the narrative procedures of the Arabian Nights. Cohen, 894-95. Ex-libris bookplate with fleur-de-lis.
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