Arabian nights entertainments: consisting of one thousand and one stories told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody Vow he had made to marry a Lady every Day, and have her cut off next Morning, to avenge himself for the Disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c. Containing A better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians and Indians, than is to be met with in any Author hitherto publish'd. Translated into French from the Arabian Mss. by M. Galland, Of the Royal Academy; and now done into English, from the third edition in French, corrected and amended. ...
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- 1725
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Also known as
Arabian nights. English.
Publication/Creation
London : printed for T. Longman, at the Ship and Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1725.
Physical description
2v. ; 120.
Edition
The fifth edition ..
References note
ESTC T68142
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.