Lot 278 , Burton, Sir Richard Francis - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton....Reproduced from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers...the Illustrated

° Burton, Sir Richard Francis - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R.F. Burton....Reproduced from the original edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers...the Illustrated Library Edition, 12 vols. (vols. 9-12 being the Supplemental Nights). portrait and 70 plates (with captioned guards) by Albert Letchford; publisher's gilt decorated and lettered black cloth, gilt tops with other edges rough trimmed, roy. 8vo. H.S. Nichols, 1897; together with the portfolio of artists proofs, publisher's cloth with gilt lettered spine, roy. 8vo. issue. 1897.(13)
£160-200

Condition:
All with some wear at spine heads; portfolio with spine wear, most text vols. with publisher's tipped in note regarding 'not advertised prices'. Portfolio with captioned guards, also title and index - xvpp.

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