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THE ARABIAN NIGHTSby Galland, Antoine (trans)Later Printing
Book description: NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946 Publisher's full pictorial cloth boards, purple endpapers, AEG (purple). 4to. (viii), 327, (1) pp. Beautiful full-color plates and numerous in-text B&W drawings by Earle Goodenow. This is a new, unopened, unmarked copy in perfect condition. AS NEW. Antoine Galland (1646 - 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights. (also known as The Arabian Nights in English). His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a huge influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Galland had come across a manuscript of The Tale of Sindbad the Sailor in the 1690s and in 1701 he published his translation of it into French. Its success encouraged him to embark on a translation of a 14th-century Syrian manuscript of tales from the The Thousand and One Nights. The first two volumes of this work, under the title Les mille et une nuits, appeared in 1704. The twelfth and final volume was published posthumously in 1717. Galland translated the first part of his work solely from the Syrian manuscript, but in 1709 he was introduced to a Christian Maronite monk from Aleppo, Hanna Diab, who recounted fourteen more stories to Galland from memory. Galland chose to include seven of these tales in his version of the Nights. Mystery still surrounds the origins of some of the most famous tales. For instance, there are no Arabic manuscripts of Aladdin and Ali Baba which pre-date Galland's translation, leading some scholars to conclude that Galland invented them himself and the Arabic versions are merely later renderings of his original French. No attribution is made in this volume for the translation into English.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Earle Goodenow. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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