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BURTON, Richard Francis A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [and:] Supplemental Nights. Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society. For Private Subscribers Only, 1885-1888. 16 volumes, 8 o. Contemporary light blue half morocco, spines gilt with red morocco onlay (slightly dried, with rubbing to joints, spine ends and corerns). FIRST EDITION of the author's most financially successful book, with the name and date of the copyrighter on title-page versos Penzer p. 114-116; Casada 74; Spink 73. WOOD, Stephen L. One Hundred Illustrations to Captain Sir Richard Burton's Translation of The Arabian Nights from Original Paintings. London: Pickering and Chatto: n.d. [1900]. 8 o. Number 59 of an unspecified number of sets. List of plates and 100 numbered plates with captioned tissues. Quarter morocco light blue slipcase, uniformly bound to match the 16. vols. of The Arabian Nights. See Penzer p. 125. (17)