Supplemental nights to the Book of the thousand nights and a night
By: with notes anthropological and explanatory ... by Richard F. Burton
Edition: Facsimile ed.
Publisher: Burton Society of Denver, Colo.
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Denver
Language: eng
Other titles: Book of the thousand nights and a night.; Book of the thousand nights and a night
Work titles: Arabian nights
Notes: Printer's imprint on verso of each t.-p.: Press of the Carson-Harper co., Denver, Colo., 1900[-01].

Imprint of the original ed. ("Benares: MDCCCLXXXVI[-LXXXVIII]: Printed by the Kamashastra society for private subscribers only.") and vol. numbering at head of each t.-p.

Burton's Arabic pseud. appears in Arabic at front of each t.-p.

"Nota bene - There were no illustrations in the Benares edition. Those contained in [these volumes] were originally designed by Stanley L. Wood to supplement the work."

Plates protected by tissue guardsheet with descriptive letterpress.

Supplementary stories taken from the Breslau ed. of 1825-43 and the Calcutta fragment of 1814.

Vols. 2-3 contain appendices by W. A. Clouston, "Variants and analogies of some of the tales ..."; vols. 5-6 contain similar appendices by W. F. Kirby.

"Additional notes on the bibliography of the Thousand and one nights ... By W. F. Kirby": v. 6, p. 356-384.

"The biography of the book and its reviewers reviewed": v. 6, p. [385]-500.

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