TITLE : The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night. (A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments). PUBLISHER: The Burton Club For Private Subscribers Only. First Edition, limited edition, numbered 318 of 1,000 numbered sets. Complete seventeen volume set. Hardcovers, original light grey cloth boards with printed paper spine labels, gilt top edges, ragged front edges. Books feature black and white gravure illustrations on parchment (with tissue guards) by French and English artists, including Lethford, Lalauze andd others. Includes ten volumes of the Arabian Nights and seven volumes of the Supplemental Nights. Supplemental Nights is in six parts bound into seven volumes. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand And One Nights. (the Arabian Nights) a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. (8th 13th centuries) by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton. It stood as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) of the “Arabian Nights” until the Malcolm C. And Ursula Lyons translation in 2008. Burton’s volumes, while boasting many prominent admirers, have been criticized for their “archaic language and extravagant idiom” and “obsessive focus on sexuality”; they have even been called an “eccentric ego-trip”. And a “highly personal reworking of the text”. His voluminous and obscurely detailed notes and appendices have been characterized as obtrusive, kinky and highly personal. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton. Was an English geographer. Explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. Volume one (only) has a few roughly opened pages due to untrimmed pages. There is some fading to spines and browning to spine labels else the set condition is very good with no markings and only minor corner corner bumping on a few volumes. Please contact me with any questions and visit my store, CALIFORNIACAL, for more great listings. The item “ARABIAN NIGHTS 1885 THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT 17 VOLUME SET” is in sale since Monday, November 12, 2018. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “californiacal” and is located in Westminster, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Year Printed: 1885
- Modified Item: No
- Topic: Classics
- Binding: Hardcover
- Subject: Literature & Fiction
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Publisher: The Burton Club For Private Subscribers Only
- Special Attributes: 1st Edition
