The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. Closed tear to top of half-title page Very Good. The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01 Anonymous Translated by Jonathan Scott (1754 - 1829) The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. Pages are very clean, with age-toning to margins of text. Shahryar discovers that both his brothers wife and his own. Prior owner's ink inscription to recto of front endpaper. The main frame story of Arabian Nights tells the tale of the ruler Shahryar and of Scheherazade. Published in cloth binding with marbled boards. First published in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age, the work was a popular favourite during the Victorian period.?Starting in the late 1800s, there was a distinct interest in translating these works into English, with translations undertaken by Torrens, Edward William Lane, John Payne, and most famously, Sir Richard Francis Burton.?This edition contains notable stories such as 'The Story of the Merchant and the Genie', 'The History of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied', and 'The Story of the Enchanted Horse'.?Dated using Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Collated, complete. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece.'The Arabian Nights', or 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments' is a collection of folktales from the Middle East. A well presented copy of 'The Arabian Nights', published by Richard Edward King with an illustrated frontispiece.
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