The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night - From the Arabic of the Ægyptian M. S #249170

Considerable progress had been made with this vo lume before it came to my knowledge, that Mr. Lane himself meditated a translation of the One Thousand and One Nights from a m.s. Said to be not inferior to that from which this version is rendered. I need hardly say that had I at an earlier date been aware of this intention.