A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night With Introduction Explanatory Notes On the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and A Terminal Essay Upon The History of The Nights With Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory

Denver, Colorado: Burton Society of Denver, Colorado, 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile of the original edition. Ten volumes plus six volumes of the Supplemental Nights. Three quarter red leather with red cloth covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Number 791 of 1000 sets in this edition. Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Overall a very good set with moderate wear and scuffing at the extremities and occasional scratches, and the spines of Volumes II and III of The Nights have some repair to the binding. An attractive and profusely illustrated set of the best known translation of possibly the most entertaining story cycle in the history of world literature. (Inventory #: 298585)