Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

upplemental ights TO THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY VOLUME II.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

RICHARD F. BURTON

Illustration from Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number ____

Printed in U. S. A.

TO HENRY IRVING, Esq.

My Dear Irving,

To a consummate artist like yourself I need hardly suggest that The Nights still offers many a virgin mine to the Playwright; and I inscribe this volume to you, not only in admiration of your genius but in the hope that you will find means of exploiting the hidden wealth which awaits only your “Open, Sesame!”

Ever yours sincerely,

RICHARD F. BURTON.

London, August 1, 1886.

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