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 ... and now done into English from the last Paris edition

Printed for T. Longman, 1767

12th ed

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Uniform Title

Arabian nights

Note

Vol. 1: 320 p.; v. 2: 314 p.; v. 3: 273 [i.e. 301] p.; v. 4: 312 p

• NCID: BB18171536
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 18 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tales, Arabic
  • LCSH : Fairy tales
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA00017464