Payne, John (translator)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
£756
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Now first completely done into English Prose and Verse, from the Original Arabic. London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1882. One of 500 sets, 9 volumes, 8vo, original japon lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, armorial bookplates of James Cowan of Ross Hall, spines rolled, bindings somewhat soiled, spotting to endpapers;
Idem. Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-1818) Editions of the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, not occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work, now first done into English. London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1884. Number 169 of an unspecified number of sets, 3 volumes, 8vo, original japon lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, bindings somewhat soiled;
Idem. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccacci (Il Boccaccio) now first completely done into English Prose and Verse. London: printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1886. Number 627 of an unspecified number of sets, 3 volumes, 4to, original japon lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, bindings slightly soiled;
Shakespeare Head Press. Froissarts Cronycles. Translated out of the French by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. One of 350 sets on paper, 8 volumes, large 8vo, original linen-backed boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, hand-coloured woodcuts to title-pages and similar heraldic devices to margins throughout;
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Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman