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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard F. Burton

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Richard F. Burton

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Title continued: with Introduction Explanatory Notes in the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of The Nights.

Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society, 1885-8.
16 volumes.
362, 343, 356, 308, 406, 303, 382, 359, 359, 532, 370, 392, 661, 381, 515, 500 pp.
First edition.
Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.
Black cloth with gold and silver gilt embellishments. Top fore-edges red.
Very good.
Mild fading to spine cloth on all volumes. A few small spots on cloth as well. Closed tear along bottom right edge of spine cloth on volume 10.
Bookplate of A.P. Kenrick Edward on front paste-down endpaper of all volumes.
Faint spotting to fore-edges. Minor spotting to title-page of volume 3. Spotting to title-page of volume 10.
Remains a smart looking set.