Heading: (Arabian Nights)
Author: Scott, Jonathan
Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Carefully Revised and Occasionally Corrected from the Arabic. To Which is Added, a Selection of New Tales
Place Published: London
Publisher:Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al
Date Published: 1811
Description:

Six volumes. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. (8vo) 18.5x11.5 cm (7¼x4½") early full calf, bordered in gilt and blind, spines gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition of this translation.

Following a distinguished career in India, including a period as Warren Hastings' private Persian translator, Jonathan Scott (1753-1829) returned to England and the life of an orientalist scholar. His revision and translation of Antoine Galland's French Arabian Nights "constituted the first literary translation of the Arabian Nights, providing a critical introduction and copious annotation of the Muslim religion and customs." (DNB) Intended for a general readership it proved extremely popular and remains a very readable edition of such tales as The Story of Sinbad and The Story of Alla Ad Deen or the Wonderful Lamp.

Spines faded, front joint split on first volume, extremities rubbed, Volume one with old damp stain to covers and a few leaves at front and rear, early ownership markings; some foxing; very good.