1859 Rare Book Set - The Thousand & One Nights, ARABIAN NIGHTS by Edward William Lane.This beautiful book has been sold Please search for other similar books from our bookseller friends! (Description) Author: Edward William Lane and Stanley Lane Poole (Translators). Title: The Thousand and One Nights Commonly Called in England the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Complete 3 volume set. Publisher: London, John Murray, 1859. Complete three volumes set. Language: Text in English. Size: 9 " X 6. 5 ". Pages: xxx 555, xii 578, xii 703 pages.

gift note of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown)

"Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen")

Author: PLAUTUS

The work was originally passed off as an authentic work by a Persian imam named Horam translated into English by "Sir Charles Morell

The illustrator:  Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was an English artist known for her paintings

Author: Brothers Grimm

light toning of pages - as shown)

he helps the family prosper

Gulliver's Travels

gift note of a previous 1905 owner on the first endpaper - as shown)

Binding: Scarce and very good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine

The Six Swans