Item #130391 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Richard Francis BURTON.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments In Twelve Volumes. Translated from the Arabic by Richard F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers

London, H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1897/ [1894, the 'Library Edition'].

Large octavo, twelve volumes, comprising the eight primary volumes and four volumes of 'Supplemental Nights'. Pagination ranges from 410 to 507 pages per volume, and there are 71 plates from original paintings by Albert Letchford scattered throughout.

Black cloth printed in gold; top edges gilt, others uncut; covers a little bumped, scuffed, flecked and rubbed; slight wear to a few corners and the bottom edge of one cover; leading edges and some endpapers a little foxed; a few slight marks and mild signs of age and use (for example, the stitching is a little loose on occasion); overall a very good set.

The second impression of the Nichols-Smithers 'Library Edition' in Penzer's 'Style A' binding. This edition reprints the original 1886 Benares edition.

Provenance: Lance Strother Walters (1906-1978), Chief Brewer of the SA Brewing Company from 1944, with his armorial bookplate on each front pastedown ('Vera in omnibus quaerere').

See Penzer, pages 118-124. [12 items].

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