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. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS - FINE BINDING, 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.
Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oils specially painted by Albert Letchford.

London. H.S. Nichols Ltd, 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 17 cms, 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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