1855 Arabian 1001 Nights Illustrated Ali Baba Aladdin Sinbad English Lane Harvey
“A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance.”
– The Arabian Nights
During the Golden Age of Islam in South and West Asia, a collection of tales and stories was gathered and called “One Thousand and One Arabian Nights”. It was first translated into French by Antoine Galland in 1704-17 and helped establish a positive attitude toward Islam in the Western world. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.
This scarce 1855 edition is profusely illustrated and is translated by famous English lexicographer E.W. Lane and edited by the translator’s nephew, Edward Stanley Poole.. Lane himself writes:
“There is one work, however, which represents most admirable pictures of the manners and customs of the Arabs, and particularly of those of the Egyptians; it is ‘The Thousand and One Nights; or, Arabian Nights’ Entertainments:’ if the English reader had possessed a close translation of it with sufficient illustrative notes, I might almost have spared myself the labour of the present undertaking.”
It is filled with hundreds of impressive woodcuts from the art of William Harvey, as well as some of the most famous stories – ‘Aladdin’, ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, and ‘Sinbad the Sailor’.
1855 Arabian 1001 Nights Illustrated Ali Baba Aladdin Sinbad English Lane Harvey
“A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance.”
– The Arabian Nights
During the Golden Age of Islam in South and West Asia, a collection of tales and stories was gathered and called “One Thousand and One Arabian Nights”. It was first translated into French by Antoine Galland in 1704-17 and helped establish a positive attitude toward Islam in the Western world. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.
This scarce 1855 edition is profusely illustrated and is translated by famous English lexicographer E.W. Lane and edited by the translator’s nephew, Edward Stanley Poole.. Lane himself writes:
“There is one work, however, which represents most admirable pictures of the manners and customs of the Arabs, and particularly of those of the Egyptians; it is ‘The Thousand and One Nights; or, Arabian Nights’ Entertainments:’ if the English reader had possessed a close translation of it with sufficient illustrative notes, I might almost have spared myself the labour of the present undertaking.”
It is filled with hundreds of impressive woodcuts from the art of William Harvey, as well as some of the most famous stories – ‘Aladdin’, ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, and ‘Sinbad the Sailor’.
Item number: #15038
Price: $499
LANE, Edward William. (transl.)
The Arabian nights entertainments
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1855.
Details:
- Collation: Complete with all pages
- [viii], 991p
- Numerous illustrations by William Harvey
- Language: English
- Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
- Decorative cloth
- Size: ~8in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 13cm)
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15038
Category
Literature
Authors
LANE, Edward William. (transl.)
Printing Date
19th Century
Language
English
Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Excellent
Collation
Complete
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