Big scan of Sidney Sime’s illustration for the second book of Dunsany’s Wonder Tales, Tales of Wonder (1916), illustrating the story “How Ali Came to the Black Country”…
“In harems in Persia in the evening, when the tales go round, it is still told how Ali and Shep and Shooshan came to the Black Country. When it was dawn they looked upon the country and saw how it was without doubt the appointed place, even as Ali had said ; for the earth had been taken out of pits and burned and left lying in heaps, and there were many factories, and they stood over the town and as it were rejoiced.”
[ Hat-tip Golden Age comics ]
