[3 volumes] The Thousand and One Nights Commonly Called the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
London: Chatto & Windus. 1912. Binding: Half maroon morocco over matching cloth boards. Spines with 4 raised bands decorated with gilt rules and fleur-de-lis, gilt lettering in compartments 2 and 4. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. Top edges gilt, front and bottom uncut. , Notes: Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British orientalist, known for his translation of the Thousand and One Nights as well as the Kur-an. During his lifetime, Lane also wrote a detailed account of Egypt and the country's ancient sites, but the book (Description of Egypt) was published posthumously.
Lane's version of Thousand and One Nights was initially published as a monthly serial from 1838 to 1840, later published in three volumes in 1840. Lane himself saw the Nights as an edifying work, as he had expressed earlier in a note in his preface to the Manners and Customs: “There is one work, however, which represents most admirable pictures of the manners and customs of the Arabs, and particularly of those of the Egyptians; it is 'The Thousand and One Nights; or, Arabian Nights' Entertainments:' if the English reader had possessed a close translation of it with sufficient illustrative notes, I might almost have spared myself the labour of the present undertaking.”
, Size: 8vo. (225 x 150 mm), Illustration: Illustrated with engraved vignettes throughout. , Volume: 3 volumes. , Category: Book Literature; Book Asia Middle East General;. Near fine example of this set, very attractively bound set, complete in 3 volumes. Item #B7138
Price: $575.00