The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments. [with] Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory.
Privately printed Burton Club edition of Burton's famed translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and the Supplemental Nights
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments. [with] Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory.
BURTON, Richard.
Item Number: 134025
Privately printed Burton Club edition of Burton’s famed translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and the Supplemental Nights. Octavo, 16 volumes, original cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume. In fine condition. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.
Richard Burton was an accomplished geographer, explorer, orientalist, ethnologist, diplomat, polylinguist and author who is best known for his translation of Arabian Nights. One of the great Arabists of his day, he had long wanted to publish an unexpurgated version of the "Arabian Nights" stories. The first translations into English, notably that by Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were highly abridged. In translating the Nights, Burton "attempted to invent an English equivalent of medieval Arabic. In doing so, he drew upon Chaucerian English, Elizabethan English, and the 1653 English translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart of the first three books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel" (Byatt).
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