Richard F. Burton

First Edition of Burton's most famous work in four volumes.

• Sold as a set of 4.
• Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights Translated literally from the Arabic. prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
• London: Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, 1886.
• 6 vols.
• 8vo.
• With Woodburytpe photographs tipped in the first two volumes as frontispieces, the first of Lady Burton and the second of Richard himself.
• Title-page printed in green and brown.
• Bound in modern three-quarters brown morocco and marbled boards, green leather title labels.

This is Lady Burton's attempt to sanitize her husband’s most lasting work.