Stock ID #223679 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a Series of 71 Original Illustrations Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford. RICHARD F. BURTON.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a Series of 71 Original Illustrations Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a Series of 71 Original Illustrations Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Illustrated by a Series of 71 Original Illustrations Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton. Reprinted from the Original Edition and Edited by Leonard C. Smithers.<BR> Illustrated by a Series of 71 Original Illustrations Reproduced from the Original Pictures in Oils Specially Painted by Albert Letchford.

London. H.S. Nichols. 1897. Stock ID #223679

12 volumes, including the Supplemental Nights (vols 9-12), 71 photogravure illustrations complete with captioned tissue guards (including a frontispiece in each volume), title-pages printed in red and black, with the additional facsimile Kamashastra Society imprint title-pages, top edges gilt, fore-edges untrimmed; original half maroon morocco with green linen boards, 26 x 17cm, spines gilt decorated in compartments between raised bands and gilt lettered in English and Arabic, marbled endpapers, with bookseller’s ticket of A.H. Spencer; prelims and fore-edges a little foxed, scant foxing elsewhere, a gathering in the first two volumes a little shaken, a couple of text leaves with minor edge tears, but the fine illustrations clean, with fine deep tone, a handsomely bound set in very good condition.

The handsome H.S. Nichols' Library Edition of Burton's classic work with fine photogravure illustrations. Nichols included reproductions of the original "Kamashastra Society" title pages, reprinting the original 16-volume work into the 12-volume Library Edition, following Burton's death in 1890.

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