'The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night' by Richard Francis Burton, together with the 'Supplemental Nights', 16 volumes, First Edition Original Edition, privately printed Benares for the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only, London 1885/88. Together with a limited edition hard bound folio 'one hundred illustrations to Captain Sir Richard Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights' from original paintings by Stanley L Wood, Proofs before Letters, only 250 printed, this being number 2. Also with another hard bound folio 'A series of seventy original illustrations to Captain Sir R. F. Burton's Arabian Nights and a portrait of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton', specially printed by Albert Letchford, Artist's Proofs.Together with other related printed material. (af).

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