The Calender and the Angry Genie
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The calender, son of a king, was snatched up by an angry genie and thrown into a strange island.
(Facing p. 64.)
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A scary-looking genie with long hair and teeth, bulging glassy eyes, wings, and its lower body shaped as a fish tail seems to be leaping out of the water to go after a man trying to run away on a small rocky islet. This picture refers to the story of the second calender, which is part of One Thousand and One Nights.
Each illustration featured in this book was printed twice: once included in the passage to which it is relevant, embellished with an elaborate border, and once plain, as part of a booklet gathered at the end of the volume, as wasn't uncommon for luxury editions of that time.
The caption reads in the original French: Le calender, fils de roi, saisi par un génie furieux, fut jeté dans une île inconnue.
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