The Quest of the Four-Leaved Clover: A Story of Arabia
| First published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Ginn and Company |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Novel |
| Pages | ix+211 |
- Adapted by Walter Taylor Field --title page
- {{Tr|Walter Taylor Field}}
- Adapted for "the youth of America". The Introduction by WTF concludes with a one-paragraph explanation, "The present story is an adaptation. In translating it ..." (page v viewed at HathiTrust). This may be called bowdlerization.
- Artist Charles Copeland not credited; identified by comparison of full-page b/w drawings, signed almost legibly "Copeland" or "C? Copeland" (best, p96), with signatures (eg, p9) in his credited edition of Gulliver's Travels (Ginn, 1914). Both eds. viewed at HathiTrust.
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover and illustrated endpapers -- title page illustrated, undated, states (four lines, quote): Adapted from the French of Laboulaye's // "Abdallah" by // Walter Taylor Field -- copyright: (c) 1910 by Field; identifies The Atheneum Press, Ginn and Company, Proprietors -- Introduction, p.iii-v, closes "W. T. F."; "Chicago, Illinois" -- "Full-Page Illustrations", ix, lists 5 (b/w drawings included in the pagination, numbered) -- novel spans p1-209 -- "Pronouncing Vocabulary", p211 Illustrations include some head- or tailpieces. Illustrations not credited. Text contains some footnotes (by hasty count 7 in three chapters, p1-24).