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Title: Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Translator: Sir Richard Francis Burton


Release date: May 16, 2020 [eBook #62140]
Most recently updated: May 25, 2025

Language: English

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‏‏لا لابرار كلّ شي تبر‎‎
“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”
(Puris omnia pura)
—Arab Proverb.
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
—“Decameron”—conclusion.
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”
—Martial.
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”
—Rabelais.

“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”

—Crichton’s “History of Arabia.”

A. Lalauze. Pinx. et Sc.

Supplemental
Nights
TO THE BOOK OF THE
Thousand Nights and a Night
WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY
VOLUME IV.

BY
RICHARD F. BURTON
PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

Number ____
Printed in U. S. A.
TO WILLIAM H. CHANDLER, Esq.,
Pembroke College, Oxford.
My Dear Mr. Chandler,

As without your friendly and generous aid this volume could never have seen the light, I cannot resist the temptation of inscribing it to you—and without permission, for your modesty would have refused any such acknowledgment.

I am, ever,
Yours sincerely,
RICHARD F. BURTON.
Trieste,
March 10th, 1888.