Richard F. Burton. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [And:] Supplemental Nights. 16 vols., Benares [i.e., London]: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885–1888.
Burton had gained literary fame in the 1850s with the account of his pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in disguise. This first complete English translation of the Arabian Nights, an unexpurgated and explicitly erotic work published by subscription with a false imprint, assured Burton a comfortable fortune in his later years. The Ocean of Story.
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