The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #010556
Library edition. With introduction explanatory notes on the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon the history of the Nights. Half red leather, marbled paper boards, gilt compartments, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. xxxii, 416; x, 431; xii, 444; xii, 420; x, 400; 408; x, 406; xiv, 424; xv, 444; xix, 479; xii, 495; xxiv, 399 pp. Illustrated with [68] B&W plates with tissue guards. Some light soiling and edge wear, fading to spines, rubbing to boards. Some cracking to hinges, a few short tears. Age toning to edges of pages. Bookplates of Charles Cobb Walker to front pastedown of each volume. Some damp staining to tail edge and two large chips to corners of pp. 25-28 of v. VI.
Price: $4,250.00