Chapter 1: Title page and edition credits

Edward William Lane, translator. Edited by Edward Stanley Poole, with a preface by Stanley Lane-Poole. Illustrations from designs by William Harvey. Chatto & Windus, London, 1912. Volume I of three.

This reproduces the supplied Lane edition, which omits some material from the Arabic work; it is not the complete Thousand and One Nights. The original wording, notes and illustrations are retained; page numbers have been removed and the sections reformatted for web reading.

Source transcription: Project Gutenberg, eBook 34206. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Catalogue and rights statement: public domain in the USA.

Cover: original ornamental title-page design by William Harvey, engraving credited to Jackson in the edition’s list of illustrations. No modern commercial cover is used.

Historical content includes violence, enslavement, sexual references and prejudicial language. The translator’s historical commentary is reproduced as part of the edition.

Transcriber's note:

There are two levels of notes (footnotes) in this book: The first level is called Notes by the author and are referred from the main body of text as [C_n] where C is the Chapter number and n the number of the note related to this chapter. The second level conists of regular footnotes referred from the Notes of the author and are numbered the usual way.

In the HTML file Notes and footnotes are numbered without chapter numbers.

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

COMMONLY CALLED THE

ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS

TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC, WITH COPIOUS NOTES, BY

EDWARD WILLIAM LANE

EDITED BY HIS NEPHEW EDWARD STANLEY POOLE FROM A COPY ANNOTATED BY THE TRANSLATOR WITH A PREFACE BY STANLEY LANE-POOLE AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE DESIGNS OF WILLIAM HARVEY

A NEW IMPRESSION IN THREE VOLUMES

VOL. I

LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS

1912

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED. DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W.