Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night & Supplemental Nights

A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night with Introductory Explanatory Notes on The Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights. 10 volumes. -AND- Supplemental Nights to The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory. 7 volumes. 17 volumes total. Illustrated Benares Edition one of 1000 sets issued by The Burton Club. Extra Fine set of books.

Author: Burton, Richard F.

4to (6.5"x 9.5") Modern bindings of 3/4 red leather with generous corners over blue/red marble boards. Spine with 5 raised compartments, gilt titles in second compartment in gilt Frame, gilt author/vol# in gilt frame in third. Gilt embossed devices of a man and his camel, a severed head on a footed platter centered to the other compartments. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and foot deckled, uncut sheets found. This set of books appears new and unread although it was printed c.1890. Inside reads, "Illustrated Benares edition, issued by the Burton Club, for private circulation among its members, and is strictly limited to one thousand sets".

From Wiki: Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (/ˈbɜːrtən/; 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar, and soldier. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine languages. Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when non-Muslims were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; a translation of The Perfumed Garden, the "Arab Kama Sutra"; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.

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