Golden Maiden, and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

Armenian folk tales in English - the golden maiden, the talking fish, the youngest brother who wins - collected and translated by an Armenian writer who left for America before the massacres. This edition is bound with 59 plates of paintings by Rubens, Luca Giordano, Tiepolo and others, 1302–1796, on subjects from Bacchus and Ariadne to the fall of Icarus, and includes one restored colour illustration.