A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01 (of 17)

by Unknown

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-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions."

—Crichton's "History of Arabia."

A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. NOW ENTITULED

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

OF

MY LAMENTED FRIEND

John Frederick Steinhaeuser,

(CIVIL SURGEON, ADEN)

WHO

A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO

ASSISTED ME IN THIS TRANSLATION.