The Thousand & One Nights; or, Arabian Nights' Entertainments

London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1896. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". Frank Brangwyn. A smart illustrated edition of this collection of Middle Eastern folktales, translated into English. Complete in six volumes. A collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. Originally collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and plates. Volume two is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Volume three is illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Volume four is illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Volume five is illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Volume six is illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. Translated by Edward William Lane, a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. With an introduction by Joseph Jacobs, a New South Welsh-born British-Jewish folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore. Illustrated by Sir Frank Brangwyn, a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed