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The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Two Volume Set), complete] by Burton, Richard F, et Alia [translators] - 1955

by Burton, Richard F, et Alia [translators]

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Two Volume Set), complete]

by Burton, Richard F, et Alia [translators]

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New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Two quarto volumes bound in black cloth with silver adornments, both housed in single black publisher's slipcase. The first volume contains the first 36 entertainments and the notes upon them; the second volume contains the 37th through the 65th entertainment and the notes upon them. The Burton translation with the addition of notes upon the text prepared by those scholars who had previously translated the text into English from the Arabic, notably: Henry Torrens,Edward Lane, John Payne. Illustrated with full page color plates by Arthur Szyk. Sandglass from the Heritage Club laid-in. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Books clean, square and unmarked. Box is solid with no cracks or splits. A nice set, near fine in near fine slipcase. A heavy set, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
  • Bookseller Great Expectations Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Edition First Edition Thus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Heritage Press
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1955
  • Keywords Literature, Heritage Press
  • Size 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Volume Two

by BURTON, RICHARD F. (trans & annon)

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The Burton Club (n/d circa mid 1880's). This Volume Only, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
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The book of the thousand nights and a night[:] a plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments. With: (2) BURTON, Richard F. Supplemental nights.(3) BURTON, Richard F. [Autograph manuscript book review of an 1881 Panchatantra edition].(Colophons: U.S.A. [Boston, MA?]), The Burton Club, [ca. 1940]. 16 volumes (incl. 6 supplements). 8vo. With an original manuscript leaf written by Burton (with the manuscript heading: "Proof to Sir R.F.B. Hotel des Bains, Aigle, Canton Vaud, Switzerland" and a note “Long Primer Pressig.”) and each volume with a different frontispiece in two states (coloured and uncoloured). Contemporary richly gold-blocked green morocco, boards with Arabic script in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins.

by [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard F

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The so-called "manuscript edition" of Richard Burton's celebrated translation of Alf Laylah Wa Laylah, commonly known in English as the Arabian nights. These Arabic tales, cherished in Europe since the early 18th century, are often erotic in content, and in Burton's unexpurgated translation they outraged Victorian England. Burton included numerous footnotes and a scholarly apparatus, offering a vivid picture of Arabian life (including sexual customs), which set his translation apart from earlier English renderings. The present edition (limited to 99 sets, the present being copy no. 49) includes a manuscript leaf from a text by Burton. In the present copy this is a book review by Burton, of a French translation of Johannis de Capua's Latin translation of a Hebrew translation of the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit frame story written several centuries before the Arabian nights. The notes at the head show that it was used as printer’s copy.The title-page of volume one uses the correct main title, The book of… Read More
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