Arabian Nights: The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Unexpurgated)

527 pp. Unexpurgated. Selected tales translated and with the original footnotes by Sir Richard Burton. Illustrations by William Harvey and the Brothers Dalziel. "These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: a thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever."