Arabian Nights' entertainments
Subtitle: consisting of one thousand and one stories related by the Sultaness of the Indies ...
By: translated from the Arabian manuscript into French, by M. Galland
Edition: Cooke's ed.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
Publisher: Printed for C. Cooke
Published: 1800
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Work titles: Arabian nights. English
Notes: Added engr. t.p.

Work of fiction.

"To divert the sultan from the execution of a vow he had made to marry a lady every day, and have her destroyed next morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first sultaness, &c. Containing an account of the customs, manners, and religion of the [sic] nations, viz, Tartars, Persians, and Indians."