The Arabian nights entertainments
Subtitle: containing sixty-five stories ...
By: the definitive and all-inclusive Burton translation ; with the addition of the notes upon the text prepared by those scholars who had previously translated the text into English from the Arabic, notably Henry Torrens ... Edward Lane ... John Payne ; and it is embellished with sixty miniatuare paintings by Arthur Szyk
Contributors: Macy, George, book designer; W.S. Cowell Ltd; Limited Editions Club; Limited Editions Club Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Prepared for the members of the Limited Editions Club by W.S. Cowell Ltd.
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Ipswich
Language: eng
Work titles: Arabian nights. English
Notes: "Designed by George Macy"--Newman & Wiche.

"Fifteen hundred sets have been made"--Colophon.

Vols. 1-2 are paged continuously (xvii, 674 p., [58] leaves of plates) as are the supplements (vii, 262 p.), which contain the notes to v. 1-2. Each vol. with the related supplement is housed in a slipcase.

LC has copy no. 1 in 2 slipcases.

Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 254