THE BOOK OF THE Thousand Nights and a Night WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE NIGHTS VOLUME VI.

BY

RICHARD F. BURTON

PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number 547

Printed in U. S. A.

I INSCRIBE THIS VOLUME

TO MY OLD AND VALUED CORRESPONDENT,

IN WHOSE DEBT I AM DEEP,

PROFESSOR ALOYS SPRENGER

(OF HEIDELBERG),

ARABIST, PHILOSOPHER AND FRIEND.

R. F. BURTON.

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