The book of the thousand nights and a night : a plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments / translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Arabian nights. English.

Language:

Arabic

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

17 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm

Edition:

Baroda edition.

Other Title:

Arabian nights' entertainments

Book of a thousand nights and a night

Supplemental nights to the Book of the thousand and one nights

Place of Publication:

[United States] : privately printed by the Burton Club, [1910??]

Notes:

Includes indexes (in form of a glossary).

10 vols., plus 7 vols. of Supplemental nights.

Local Notes:

"Limited to 950 sets."

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 353.

Culture Class Collection copy vols. 11-16 are numbered 1-6 on the spine but 11 -16 on the contents page and have title pages bearing the title "Supplemental nights to the book of the Thousand and one nights," with notes anthropological and explanatory.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: vol. 17 wanting.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy vols. 2-3 have title pages bearing the title "Supplemental nights to the book of the Thousand and one nights," with notes anthropological and explanatory.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.1,v.4-17 wanting.

Related Work:

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. Supplemental nights to the Book of the thousand and one nights.

OCLC:

249408513