Burton, Richard F.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Hard Cover, Benares: Printed By the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885-88, First Edition. Very Good.

First edition of Burton's classic translation of The Arabian Nights and one of only 1000 sets. 10 volumes with Supplemental Nights To The Book of the Thousand Night and a Night With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory in 6 volumes. 16 volumes in all. Royal octavo, beautifully bound in contemporary three-quarter turquoise morocco with 5 raised bands and top edges in gilt. Spines toned with light chipping to the spine of volumes 2, 3, 4 and 6 of the Supplemental Nights, some rubbing and minor spotting to the boards. A very good and attractive set. One Thousand and One Nights, known as The Arabian Nights in English, dates back to Persia from the 900’s AD. Syrian and Egyptian translations were made, containing a few hundred of the 1,001 tales, and the first European translation was completed in French in 1704. This Benares edition from 1885 was translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton from several sources, and contains all 1,001 stories plus Supplemental Nights in English. The Arabian Nights contain the classic tale of the ruler Shahryar and his wife Scheherazade. The Benares edition also includes the well-known Middle-Eastern folk tales Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (volume XI), and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (supplemental volume III).

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