The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Being the Library Edition of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment, Sir Richard F Burton (translated from Arabic), Complete in 12 Vols., 1894 ed.
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Published in London by H.S. Nichols & Co in 1894. This edition of twelve volumes was edited by the friend of the translator Richard Burton, Leonard C Smithers. It is of importance as it reinstates the text originally omitted by Lady Burton’s edition. Smithers intention in the restoration was so that this work can finally ‘take its proper place on the library shelf alongside Cervantes and Shakespeare’.
Dimensions
Each book – 26cm (10in) x 16cm (6in)
Features
notes
Published in London by H.S. Nichols & Co in 1894. This edition of twelve volumes was edited by the friend of the translator Richard Burton, Leonard C Smithers. It is of importance as it reinstates the text originally omitted by Lady Burton’s edition. Smithers intention in the restoration was so that this work can finally ‘take its proper place on the library shelf alongside Cervantes and Shakespeare’.
Details & Care
- 12 vols.
- Tall 8vo.
- First Smithers edition.
- Attractive set of the Smithers reprint of Burton's classic translation of the Arabian Nights.
- Original black cloth titled in gilt, upper covers elaborately gilt with Islamicate design, t.e.g. other edges untrimmed.
- Some bumping to heads and base of spines, slight mark at top of vol IV, some cracking to endpapers and end leaves with some toning typical for this edition, otherwise tight.
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