Richard Francis Burton: 'A Plain and Literal Translation of ...

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Richard Francis Burton: 'A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights. [with] Supplemental Nights', London & Boston, The Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only, [1920], Luristan Edition, limited to 1,000 numbered sets, this copy numbered 242, 17 volumes, frontispiece and several plates in each volume as called for, uniform rebound cloth gilt, top edges gilt, patterned end papers and pastedowns (17)