Lot 71
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 May 2011 at 12:00 BST
£713
Description
Terminal essay to "The thousand and one nights". London: For private circulation only, 1901. Unpublished, 4to, number 48 of 50 copies only, mimeographed typescript in purple ink, green cloth, original printed blue wrappers bound in
Footnote
Note: A rare issue of Burton's famous scholarly essay on pederasty, which was originally published as part of A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments (1885). This separate printing is not recorded in Penzer, but is briefly referred to (see p.195).