Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights

This anthology draws stories from the Arabic collection known as the Thousand and One Nights, set within the frame of King Shahriyar and Scheherazade, who tells a new tale each night to delay her execution. Typical pieces include voyages, city intrigues, jinni encounters, and merchant adventures: Sindbad's voyages, Ali Baba and the thieves, Aladdin, and court tales of Baghdad and Cairo. The selection presents wonder stories, moral tests, and comic deceptions rather than a single novel. The volume is a sampler of the Nights, not a complete manuscript edition and not a history of how the text was assembled.

Quarter bound in calf skin gilt blocked on spine, sides covered in Tsarina Crush with Dali's signature gilt blocked, gilded top page edge. Text volume, translation by Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, printed on Abbey ove paper, bound in cloth gilt blocked on spine and with a paper cover title, ribbon marker. Black cloth solander box gilt blocked on cover and spine.