The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night or Alflaylah Walaylah Volume 2

Denver, CO: Press of The Carson-Harper Co., 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stanley L. Wood. Tall 3 There is some foxing of the pages. Top of block is colored red. Boards and spine are black cloth with embossed gold foil titles and decorations. There is an note on an inner page that states, "There were no illustrations in the Benares Edition.Those contained in this volume were originally designed by Stanley L. Wood to supplement the work."There are illustrations of tiles and in the frontispiece. There is an illustration of Bhanim's mother and daughter leaving the city across from the title age.. There are other illustrations of designs, drawings, and quotes. "The pleasure we derive from perusing the 'Thousand and One Stories, makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these enchanting fictions." --Crichton's "History of Arabia"