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New York: Heritage Press, 1962. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Over 100 b/w Illustrations By Valenti Angelo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 volumes in 3 books (complete); bound in white cloth over red/black decorative boards, each volume housed in publisher's slipcase, thick 8vos ca. 1350pp/vol. Text of the Richard F. Burton translation, with his introduction and notes; illustrated and decorated by Valenti Angelo. (ink name stamp to endpaper).

Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1884. First Thus. Leather Binding. Good. 13 volumes, complete as issued. Atractively and uniformly bound in 'publisher's' original deluxe full vellum, spine and covers decorated in gilt with Arabesque motifs, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (one volume has a chip to spine, a second has two tears, many of the volumes have staining, wear, and some insect damage to bindings). Still quite attractive. Issued 1884-1889. There are no illustrations present in any of these volumes, nor is there any indication that any were ever present.

London: H.S. Nichols & Co., 1894.. FIRST EDITION THUS. 12 vols. 8vo. (25 x 16 cm). Original publisher's black cloth with elaborate gilt Islamic design to upper covers and Arabic device to the rear boards, coated endpapers, top edges gilt. Title-pages printed in red and black. Ex libris Harrybocker Woodhouse with his signature neatly inscribed on front pastedown of each volume; additional old ownership inscription of "W.J. Herbert, York 1957" to f.f.e.p. of vols. 1 and 12. Very minor rubbing to extremities, toning to some half-titles, generally a most excellent set. The first Nichols-Smithers "Library Edition" - followed by the "Illustrated Edition" (1897), and the illustrated "Library Edition" (1897) - with all passages restored which had been omitted from Lady Burton's edition of 1886 (she had omitted 215 pages from the original text). The original edition was published in Benares in 1885 and printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only. The first of Nichols and Smithers' fine… Read More

London.: H.S. Nichols and Co., 1894.. Original publisher's black cloth with large gilt Islamic motif and title in Arabic (Alf Layla wa Layla) to front covers, gilt calligraphic Arabic titles to rear covers, vignettes and English titles gilt to spines, cream glazed endpapers, t.e.g.. 12 vols. Large 8vo. (257 x 174 mm).. Half-title, frontispiece with Arabic quotations verso and printed title in red and black to each vol., 'Editor's Note', reproduction of the title in red and black of the Kamashastra Edition, leaf with black-bordered dedication to 'John Frederick Steinhauser, contents and 'The Translator's Preface' to vol. 1 and Burton's text translated from the Arabic; publisher's slip inserted between endpapers of each vol. A beautiful set of Sir Richard Burton's translation of Alf Layla wa Layla, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, a closer translation of the Arabic title of Alf Layla wa Layla than 'The Thousand and One Nights' is narrated by… Read More

Privately Printed By The Burton Club, 1900. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16 volumes, complete as issued. Copy #145 of 950 sets of the Baroda edition. Beautifully bound in heavy green 3/4 morocco over green cloth boards by Stikeman & Co., spines with raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration including four Crescent & Star designs with complex geometric surrounds, covers bordered with a single gilt fillet, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (spines uniformly faded to a lustrous brown, light rubbing, 4 volumes have nicking to spine tips; Volume I has crack to rear hinge with repair; Volume XVI has a tear to leaf at end (in 'Press Notices'). Still a stunning set with great shelf presence. The 'Baroda Ediition' is an early but undated American issue (date is sometimes given as 1901-02, or 1903); translated, with notes, commentaries, etc., by Richard F. Burton. 16 volumes complete (includes 10 text volumes and 6 supplementary volumes); title on spines: Alf Laylah wa Laylah. Includes b/w & duotone… Read More

Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only, [1903-1904].. ILLUSTRATED BENARES EDITION. LIMITED EDITION (1000). 17 vols. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm.) Bound by Bayntun in half red morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt pictorial devices, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt others uncut. Complete as issued with portrait and 113 full page illustrations after Letchford, Lalauze, Batten et al. A fine set. 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 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). (Penzer, pp.130-132).

A handsome edition of Burton's Arabian Nights, finely illustrated and printed in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Bold to a fault, Richard Burton travelled to Mecca, explored the African Great Lakes, shocked his readers with his candid travel accounts, and gained fame and riches with his translation of the Arabian Nights. The first edition was published in 1885-1888 and re-issued by the Burton Club shortly thereafter. The present edition is a reprint of the first Burton Club edition, illustrated with, among others, Albert Letchford's famous plates. Spines slightly faded. Fine set, uncut and partly unopened.

[Boston:] Privately Printed in the USA for the Burton Club,, [c.1903]. With autograph letter signed by Burton The Manuscript Edition, number 50 of 150 sets, with an autograph letter signed from Burton to writer and friend James Hain Friswell, the dedicatee of Burton's Stone Talk (1865), "a bitter satire... enumerating many of the crimes which England has committed" (Penzer, p. 77); Friswell helped to see the book through the press. A sparkling set of this very handsome edition. Letter in full: 34 Upper Montague Place, Montague Square August 25/[18]64 My Dear Sir Please let me know when and where I can pick you up tomorrow en route for the club [possibly either the Savage or Cannibal clubs]. I have just returned from rustication [Burton returned from the Kingdom of Dahomey, West Africa, in August 1864]. In haste believe me yours sincerely Richard F. Burton Hain Friswell Esq The Burton Club reprints were based on the edition put out by the so-called Burton Society of Denver, Colorado, in 1900-01, "the… Read More

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