MILLE ET UNE NUITS. Plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... By Richard F. Burton.

Vol. I-X. - Supplemental Nights. Vol. I-VII. S.l. [Boston], Burton Club for private subscribers only, n.d. [ca. 1920]. 17 volumes in-8, jansenist orange morocco, smooth spine, inner border of the same morocco, lining and endpapers of rolled balsa, gilt edges on witnesses (Lucie Weill). SUMMARY EDITION OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS IN THE INTEGRAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON, illustrated with 114 out-of-text compositions by a pleiad of English and French artists. This is one of the reprints by electrotyping of the so-called Burton Society edition, given in Denver in 1900-1901. These successive prints, published by the Burton Club of Boston, are not dated but identified by the name of a city. Shammar" edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies on laid paper with the plates printed on thin japon. SUPERB EXAMPLE UNIFORMLY BINDED IN JANSENIAN MAROQUIN BY LUCIE WEILL, bookseller and bookbinder who practiced in Paris from 1930 to 1978.