LANE, Edward William; Edited by Edward Stanley Poole [Charlotte Perkins Gilman].
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
Edward William Lane's Translation of The Arabian Nights Vol. II; From the Library of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865.
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Second volume of the new edition of Lane's annotated translation of The Arabian Nights, edited by his nephew; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, bound in half leather over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated with many hundred woodcut engravings from original designs by William Harvey. Signed in ink by Gilman on the front flyleaf with her New York address. Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis, Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society. In very good condition with some splitting to the interior hinges, loss to the spine and label, rubbing to the leather binding.
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern 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 (c. 1706–1721), 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 and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Egyptian, Indian, Persian, and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.
The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
$1,250.00
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