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Published by Da Capo Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 030681028XISBN 13: 9780306810282
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Henry and Co, London, 1893
Seller: Dendera, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Large paper edition in 2 volumes - one of 165 copies, this set unnumbered (Penzer pp155-6). The smaller edition had a print run of 1,500. Original gilt-titled black cloth 18 x 26cm. xvi + pp1-282; vi + pp283-562. Edges uncut. Covers very good with bumping and wear to extremities. Bindings secure. Attractive floral design bookplates ("Nina") to front pastedowns. Pages fine with some spotting. Protected in removable glassine wraps.
Leather Bound. A set of twelve quarto volumes (26 x 18 cms), each uniformly-bound in 3/4 wine-red leather over woven green cloth, with marbled endpapers and the top edges gilt. All volumes remain tightly-bound, with minor evidence of rubbing to the extremities. Each volume carries a rather nice bookplate of J. H. Burton, depicting a schooner in full sail bordered by mermaids. The bookplate is initialled "HN" (Harold Nelson, famed British bookplate designer, artist, and engraver). Internally, all volumes are in excellent condition and appear to have been seldom read or even opened. The words "Kamashastra Edition" appear at the bottom of the spine of each volume. The magnificent "Library Edition" of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R. F. Burton and reprinted from the original 1885 privately-circulated Kamashastra Society edition. It is edited by Leonard C. Smithers and illustrated by a series of seventy-one inserted original illustrations reproduced from the original pictures in oils specially painted by Albert Letchford.