The thousand and one days
Subtitle: Persian tales
By: edited by J. H. McCarthy.  With a frontispiece by S. L. Wood.
Contributors: McCarthy, Justin H. 1860-1936.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 428
Other titles: Persian tales.; Hazar yek ruz.
Notes: Selections of stories translated from "Les mille et un jour.  Contes persans, traduits en franc ʹois par m. Pe tis de la Croix."  In the preface to the original edition (Paris, 1710-1712) Pe tis de la Croix claims that the tales were translated from a manuscript copy of a Persian collection entitled "Hezaryek-Rous" (Hazar yek ruz, the thousand and one days)  cf. Preface; Chauvin, V. C.  Bibliographie des ouvrages arabes, v. 4, p. 123-132.