Published by George Redway, London, 1886
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First English Edition. 8vo half green leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt spine labels, marbled endpapers. Very attractive binding except for its being an Ex-library copy with call number to spine, usual exlib faults ow VG/ndj: xl+420pp, appends; Contains 112 Turkish tales translated into English from an undated, probably 17th century text. 'Of the Ottoman author or compiler, who calls himself simply Sheykh-zada, nothing appears to be known.'Important collection of oriental tales known as the Forty Viziers with similar frame-narrative structure as The thousand and one nights.