Laurence Housman, born on July 18, 1865, was an English artist, writer, and illustrator who worked from the 1890s to the 1950s. He started as an illustrator in London and later became a writer, creating more than a hundred works, including socialist and pacifist pamphletstochildren'sstories. Hepassedawayon February 20, 1959.

Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, Stories from the Arabian Nights was published by Hodder and Stoughton in Great Britain in 1938. This edition features 12 illustrations by Edmund Dulac, and includes popular stories such as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Fishermanandthe Genie,“ andmanymore.