Richard F. Burton

A finely bound Library Edition, Kamashastra Edition of The Aarabian Nights, translated by Richard F. Burton.

• Sold as a set of 12 volumes.
• Translated by Richard F. Burton (English).
• London: H.S. Nichols LTD., 1897.
• Illustrated by a series of 71 original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oils specially painted by Albert Letchford, with illustrated frontispiece.
• Reprinted from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers.
• Inscribed to the memory of Richard Burton's friend John Frederick Steinhaeuser, who assisted Burton in translation.
• Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, bound in three-quarters wine red Morocco leather binding with sage green cloth boards, gilt Arabic inscriptions and geometric patterns.