Transcriber's Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
"TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE."
(Puris omnia para)
—Arab Proverb.
"Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."
—"Decameron"—conclusion.
"Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget."
—Martial.
"Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes."
—Rabelais.
"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-OneStories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively smallpart of these truly enchanting fictions."
—Crichton's "History of Arabia."
A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THEARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOWENTITULED
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