Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

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

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

RICHARD F. BURTON

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Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number ____

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TO WILLIAM H. CHANDLER, Esq.,

Pembroke College, Oxford.

My Dear Mr. Chandler,

As without your friendly and generous aid this volume could never have seen the light, I cannot resist the temptation of inscribing it to you—and without permission, for your modesty would have refused any such acknowledgment.

I am, ever,

Yours sincerely,

RICHARD F. BURTON.

Trieste,

March 10th, 1888.

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