A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. 10 Volumes plus 6 supplemental volumes. – Burton, Richard F (Trans)
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Complete in 16 vols. Plus volume 3 of the Supplemental Nights in duplicate. Large 8vo’s with 114 illustrations, chiefly tissue-guarded plates, by at least 13 English and French artists; most uncredited, many borrowed from earlier editions (including nearly all of Letchford’s designs from the Nichols/Smithers issue.). Publisher’s cloth, gilt spine lettering and decoration to front and rear panels. The bindings are the same as the true first editions, by the Kamashastra Society; top edges red. Limitation statement in each volume, from an edition of 1,000 copies only. This set is numbered 502. Volume 9 however is from the original unillustrated first edition of 1885. This “Shammar Edition” is one of the “Catch-Word” editions of the Burton Club printings, produced semi-privately for subscribers. As Penzer observed, the “Burton Club” was “the nom de plume of a certain Boston publisher,” who acquired the electroplates of the Burton Society edition and from ca. 1903 onward issued a long series of reprints. None of the volumes bear dates; the series probably began in 1903 and continued well into the 1920s. Penzer identifies nine “Catch-Word” Burton Club editions Benares, Mecca, Medinah, Aden, Baghdad, Samara, Bassorah, Shammar, and Luristan appearing about every two years after 1905, though at least six others (Teheran, Baroda, Bombay, etc.) are also known. Ref: Penzer, Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Burton (1923), esp. pp. 121126. This set will required additional shipping. Shammar Edition. Condition: Very good. Some light scattered foxing. Binding: Hardcover. Some general wear to the fragile black silk bindings. Chips to the head and foot of the spines and a few minor repairs.
Publisher: The Burton Club
Date Published: Circa 1905
Publication Place: United States of America
Condition: Very good.
Binding: Hardcover.