Oriental Tales 15 Volume Set: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now First Completely Done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic, in Nine Volumes [with] Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of …

Complete in fifteen hardcover volumes. Original red cloth with paper spine labels. Comprising John Payne's complete translation from the original Arabic of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, often referred to as The Arabian Nights or Arabian Nights' Entertainment, which were collected stories purportedly told by Scheherazade to forestall her execution. This edition also includes stories not included in previous translations, and illustrations from etchings by Adolphe Lalauze.