The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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Overview:
- Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
- Author: Jonathan Scott
- Year: 1811
- Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
- Pages: 2551
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
- Notes:
- New translation.
- 6 volumes, page counts: 363+456+448+403+419+462.
- Engraved frontispiece in each volume.
- Attached photo shows the title page; original binding not known to us. One early binding shown here is likely to be a custom binding.
- Title page:
- Full title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments, carefully revised, and occasionally corrected from the Arabic. To which is added, a selection of new tales, now first translated from the Arabic originals. Also, an introduction and notes, illustrative of the religion,manners and customs, of the Mahummedans.
- "By Jonathan Scott, LL.D. Oxford."
- "With engravings from paintings by Smirke."
- Data from WorldCat, {{OCLC|5300539}} and from several other OCLC records. Additional data from Christie's Auction House and from the Dictionary of National Biography, 1909.
- This work was republished 1882 and 1890, both in 4 vols. Many later editions, with other authors, were based on this revision. See the novel record for more information.
