Arabian nights entertainments : consisting of one thousand and one stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the execution of a bloody vow he had made, to marry a lady every day and have her cut off next morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. : containing a better account of the customs, manners and religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians, and Indians, than is to be met with in any author hitherto published

Author(s)

• Galland, Antoine

Bibliographic Information

Arabian nights entertainments : consisting of one thousand and one stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the execution of a bloody vow he had made, to marry a lady every day and have her cut off next morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. : containing a better account of the customs, manners and religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians, and Indians, than is to be met with in any author hitherto published

translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland of the Royal Academy ; and now done into English from the last Paris edition

Printed for the Booksellers, 1790

The seventeenth edition

• v. 3

Uniform Title

Arabian nights

Note

The imprint is false; probably printed in Edinburgh

Signatures: v. 3: π[2] A-2F[6] 2G[4]

References: ESTC T301348

Details

• NCID: BA90055433
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London [i.e. Edinburgh]
• Pages/Volumes: [4], 356 p.
• Size: 18 cm. (12mo in 6s)