1890 - "The Arabian Knights' Entertainments"

"The Arabian Knights' Entertainments" - Translated New Edition (1890)
- Copyright 1879 by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger
- Published 1890 by J.B. Lippincott Company
- Hardcover book / 544 pages / illustrated with block print etchings
- handwritten inscription on header page, December 25, '90
** One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazar Afsan (Persian: lit. A Thousand Tales) which in turn relied partly on Indian elements. Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators.