8. ARABIAN NIGHTS. The Book of the Thousand and One Night: Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic, by John Payne. L: Printed for Subscribers Only, 1884-1897. 15 vols., together with other titles. 8vo. (230 x 170mm) Frontispieces and numerous plates. Bound in half red levant morocco over marbled boards, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, 5 rasied bands, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: spines lightly darkened, some rubbing to extremities with chipping to some headcaps.
one of 500 copies. Includes etched plates by A. Lalauze and photogravures by A. Letchford.
est. $1000 – $1500