Worth it

NPR recently posted an article about a long-lost edition of 1,001 Nights. The version in question was illustrated by Danish artist Kay Nielsen during World War I, but for various reasons the book was never released. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of his work, Taschen has collected all 21 of Nielsen's original watercolor illustrations into an oversized, absolutely spectacular coffee table book. It's a limited edition and costs $300, but damn, is it ever pretty.