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LANE, E[dward] W[illiam]. Forty-One Eastern Tales and Anecdotes.

London. Dean and Son, [1854]. First edition.
12mo. 216pp. With an engraved frontispiece and 33 engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in twentieth century green morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Marbled endpapers, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, near contemporary inked gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, leaves browned, scattered spotting.
A diminutive, well-illustrated reprint of orientalist Edward William Lane's (1801- 1876) three volume translation of the Thousand and one Nights (1839-41).

OCLC records copies at just four locations (BL, Brown, Notre Dame, and Trinity College Dublin); COPAC adds no further.
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 24993