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ARABIAN NIGHTS -- John PAYNE (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now first completely done into English prose and verse from the original Arabic. London: for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1882-84. 9 volumes, 8° (226 x 148mm). Half-titles in Arabic. (Small marginal repair to p. 369 in vol. I and to p. 113 in vol. II, small clean marginal tear to p. 311 in vol. II.) Modern red half morocco gilt, gilt spine, top edge gilt (extremities occasionally lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.D.Steedman (bookseller's ticket).
Lot 71 The Property of the Late 9th Marquess of Londonderry
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ARABIAN NIGHTS -- John PAYNE (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now first completely done into English prose and verse from the original Arabic. London: for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1882-84. 9 volumes, 8° (226 x 148mm). Half-titles in Arabic. (Small marginal repair to p. 369 in vol. I and to p. 113 in vol. II, small clean marginal tear to p. 311 in vol. II.) Modern red half morocco gilt, gilt spine, top edge gilt (extremities occasionally lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.D.Steedman (bookseller's ticket).

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ARABIAN NIGHTS -- John PAYNE (translator). The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now first completely done into English prose and verse from the original Arabic. London: for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1882-84. 9 volumes, 8° (226 x 148mm). Half-titles in Arabic. (Small marginal repair to p. 369 in vol. I and to p. 113 in vol. II, small clean marginal tear to p. 311 in vol. II.) Modern red half morocco gilt, gilt spine, top edge gilt (extremities occasionally lightly rubbed). Provenance: R.D.Steedman (bookseller's ticket).

LIMITED EDITION, no. 241 of 500 copies.