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[Foreword to] A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The book of the thousand nights and one night [corrected proof] : with introduction explanatory notes on the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon the history of The nights
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Author's proof for the terminal essay for Arabian nights
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Corrected proof of the terminal essay written by Sir Richard Burton for the 10-volume Kamashastra Society edition of his translation of Arabian Nights. Includes marginalia, handwritten notes and typed corrections laid in throughout. Corrections written on pages in ink and pencil in various colors.
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Love, war and fancy : the customs and manners of the East, from writings on the Arabian nights ; from the writings on The Arabian nights
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Terminal essay to "The thousand and one nights"
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"This exhaustive treatise is a supplement to ... the luminous essay by the late John Addington Symonds entitled A problem in Greek ethics." Burton theorizes in this essay that homosexuality is caused by climate, particularly a region known as "The Sotadic zone," and originally appeared as part of the first edition of his translation of the Arabian Nights.
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[Review of] The Arabian nights entertainments with an introduction by Jonathan Scott
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Review of Jonathan Scott's translation of Arabian nights. Originally published in The Edinburgh Review (or Critical Journal), volume 164 no. 335 (July 1886).
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[Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 (trans.)]. [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights‟ Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Terminal Essay, p. 60-63: early draft], A.MS. (4 p.), ([1886, Apr.])
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Also enclosed: Burton's envelope addressed to W.F. Kirby, postmarked Apr. 27, 1886; "The MS pages of the Nights," autograph, explanatory note by Norman M. Penzer, n.d. (2 p.) and original black cloth folder.
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