The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments (3 Vol. Set) by Lane, Edward William - 1865

John Murray. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London, 1859. Volume II only. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges and covers worn, heavier at corners and spine ends; spine is leaning; small tears in cloth along rear hinge; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Front and rear hinges cracked with webbing exposed; some finger smudges on page edges; no internal markings; illustrations in black and white; 578 pages.

John Murray. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London, 1859. Volume III only. Poor condition. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges and covers worn, heavier at corners and spine ends; rear external hinge starting; spine is leaning; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Front and rear hinges cracked with webbing exposed; binding failing; pages toned, finger smudges and small stains along page edges; illustrations in black and white; no internal markings; 703 pages.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865. Volume I only; very good+ hardcover in original green boards, label on spine, gilt top edge; illustrated throughout; . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. 6 x 9".

Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Sunned spine with nicks to top and bottom spine edges. Binding is fine. Previous owner name in pencile on front free page: R. Wilson Lee. No other markings in book. Starting at page 137, the pages remain uncut. Then I found some that were cut and then they started to be uncut again.

London: Chatto & Windus 1883, Later Edition. (Decorative cloth) Very good plus. 3 volumes: (554 P, 578 P, 701 p), illus. - "Many hundred engravings on wood from original designs by (Harvey). A new translation from the Arabic, with copious notes... A New Edition, from a copy annotated by the Translator; edited by his nephew, Edward Stanley Poole, with a preface by Stanley Lane-Poole." But for minor bumps to extremities, the boards are wonderfully bright and strong. Bookplates. Some reinforcement of prelims. Former owner's name verso endpapers. Cloth covers have been protected by shellac and are thusly shiny and bright. Internally altogether clean. A most handsome set. Illustrations by William Harvey..

London: Charles Knight & Co., , 1839-41.. Some rubbing to extremities, slight splitting of hinges. Some chipping to spines of vols. 2 and 3. Some toning to interiors, else clean and crisp. . Binding: Publisher’s grey cloth boards in half black morocco. Double blind rules on morocco edges. Spine with 5 slightly-raised bands, decorative gilt rolls, gilt lettering. All edges gilt. 3 volumes in uniform binding., Notes: Small quarto (245x153 mm). Edward William Lane (1801 – 1876) was a British orientalist, translator, and lexicographer, best known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Ku-ran. , Size: Small quarto , Illustration: A very good example of this prized Lane translation of the popular tales. This edition prized for its ‘copious notes’ on the tales. With colour-illustrated plates, tipped in, with captions, in addition to many black-and-white in-text illustrations. , Volume: 3 volumes., Category:… Read More

London: John Murray, 1859. hardcover. very good(+). 3 volumes. xxx, 555; xii, 578; xii, 704pp., with additional decorative title pages to each volume and many hundred wood-engraved vignettes by Thompson, Landells, Green, and others after William Darbey. 3/4 polished tan calf, heavily decorated gilt spines, marbled boards, top edges gilt. London: John Murray, 1859.<br/> <br/>