| 459. Thousand and One Nights. London: 1884 Deluxe Edition. Nine Volume Set. Broad Quarto.
3/4 red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. No. 194 of 500. De Luxe Edition with twenty-one Eaux-Fortes by M.A. Lalauze. From the title page: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: now first completely done into English prose and verse, from the original arabic, by John Payne (Author of "The Masque of Shadows," "Intaglios: Sonnets, " "Songs of Life and Death," "Lautrec," "The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris," "New Poems," Etc. Etc.). In Nine Volumes:"
200/300 SOLD: $402.50
Condition: Chipping and wear to spine and corners. Volume I front hinge starting: otherwise Very Good.
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