Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory: Volume XII

Overview:

  • Title: Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory: Volume XII
  • Author: Richard F. Burton, W. A. Clouston
  • Year: 1994
  • Publisher: The Easton Press
  • Price: $55.00
  • Pages: 392
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory: Volume XII
  • Notes: This is the twelfth volume in the 17-volume set from Easton Press. As with most Easton Press releases, there is no ISBN. Price from original invoice when purchased (private subscription, 2005) There are multiple illustrations throughout the volume, but they are uncredited. Some of them have a partial signature which matches that of the Victorian English illustrator Stanley L. Wood (signed as "S L Wood <date>"), who is known to have done 100 illustrations for one of the American editions of this series. All interior illustrations are by Wood. From page 291 on is a section titled "Appendix: Variants and Analogues of Some of the Tales in Vols. I and II." It consists of commentary by W. A. Clouston.