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Arabian Nights. Burton (Sir Richard Francis, editor), [Alf Laylah wa-Laylah]/A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainment, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, ten-volume set, limited to 1,000 copies, volume II numbered 733, otherwise numbered 777, along with volumes II-VII of the Supplemental Nights only (i.e. 6 of 7), s.l. [?Boston]: Printed by The Burton Club for Private Subscribers only, n.d. [c. 1920], illustrated, finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in blue three-quarter morocco gilt over cloth boards, six-compartment spines divided by raised bands, lettered in the second and third compartments, the sixth with owner's monogram in Gothic script, the others with figurative Arabic pictorials, top-edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, volume I pastedown with indistinct contemporary ink MS ownership inscription dated 1927, large 8vo, (16)
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