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 I.

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. Inscribed to the Memory OF MY LAMENTED FRIEND John Frederick Steinhaeuser, (CIVIL SURGEON, ADEN) WHO A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO ASSISTED ME IN THIS TRANSLATION.