Title: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Author: Burton, Richard F., translator Place: Benares Publisher: Kamashastra Society for private subscribers Date: 1885-1887 [but c.1894] Description: 12 volumes. Numerous engraved plates. (8vo) 25x16 cm. (9¾x6¼") period three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. The Library Edition. Scarce early printing of Burton's famed translation. Volumes 9-12 comprise the Supplemental nights. Apparently a copy of the "Library Edition" as published at London by H.S. Nichols but with Nichols' title pages omitted when bound, leaving only the facsimile title pages of the first Benares edition, with no identification of the copyright holder on the title page versos. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities worn, spines leaning, some cracking to joints and hinges; very good. Item number: 227276
Title: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Author: Burton, Richard F., translator Place: Benares Publisher: Kamashastra Society for private subscribers Date: 1885-1887 [but c.1894] Description: 12 volumes. Numerous engraved plates. (8vo) 25x16 cm. (9¾x6¼") period three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. The Library Edition. Scarce early printing of Burton's famed translation. Volumes 9-12 comprise the Supplemental nights. Apparently a copy of the "Library Edition" as published at London by H.S. Nichols but with Nichols' title pages omitted when bound, leaving only the facsimile title pages of the first Benares edition, with no identification of the copyright holder on the title page versos. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities worn, spines leaning, some cracking to joints and hinges; very good. Item number: 227276
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