Description: 3 Vol Set 1877 Thousand And One Nights (Arabian Knights) By Edward William Lane. Leather trimmed marbled boards. Corners and hinges worn, light surface wear to boards. Bindings tight and all boards firm. Spines elaborately gilded with raised bands are generally very good with no losses. Top edges gilt. Insides quite clean. Age-browning to edges, occasional spot, otherwise very clean. A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes by Edward William Lane, illustrated by many hundred engravings on wood from original designs by William Darbey. A new edition, from a copy annotated by the translator, edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole. In three volumes. Illustrated throughout with fine black and white wood engravings. 555, 578, 701 pp. including index in final volume. Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a noted scholar of the middle east. An extremely rare set in very good condition.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Illustrator: William Harbeg
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Signed: No
Author: Edward William Lane
Publisher: Bickers & Son
Topic: Sets
Subject: Children's
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1877