A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [with] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
The Connoisseur edition of Richard Burton's monumental masterpiece The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; one of only 100 numbered sets produced
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [with] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
BURTON, Richard F.
$40,000.00
Item Number: 149216
The Connoisseur edition of Burton’s monumental masterpiece. Octavo, 17 volumes bound in contemporary three quarter olive green levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and botanical gilt tooling with red floral gilt onlays to the spine in 5 compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated with tissue-guarded plates in 2 states, frontispieces with one state being hand-colored, the remaining plates with one state being India proofs. The Connoisseur edition, issued by the Burton Club for private circulation among its members and limited to one hundred numbered sets, this is number 17. In very good condition. A very sharp set in an attractive binding.
The Alf Layla wa-Layla ("One Thousand Nights and a Night") have enchanted readers for centuries with shimmering visions of "a land of fable environment whose deserts and oases, bazaars and slums, jeweled caverns and minaret-topped edifices are immediately recognizable" (Clute & Grant, 51). Esteemed explorer and scholar Richard Burton translated and annotated the Arabian Nights, intending to create "a legacy to his countrymen, of whose imperial mission he was ever mindful, and to perpetuate the fruit of his own oriental experiences" (DNB).
