The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . tion in this book any thing of which Ishould be questioned in the world to come, if it be the will of God.—I have neverseen any Arabic work with drawings of costumes; but Persian drawings are oftenuseful in explaining Arab dresses. t These drawings, with some few exceptions, have now been published, fromcopies in the possession of M. Coste. xxu THE EDITORS PREFACE. generally much longer than in the subsequent portion ; the firsthundred Nights (without the Introduction) comprising 213 pages
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . tion in this book any thing of which Ishould be questioned in the world to come, if it be the will of God.—I have neverseen any Arabic work with drawings of costumes; but Persian drawings are oftenuseful in explaining Arab dresses. t These drawings, with some few exceptions, have now been published, fromcopies in the possession of M. Coste. xxu THE EDITORS PREFACE. generally much longer than in the subsequent portion ; the firsthundred Nights (without the Introduction) comprising 213 pagesin the Cairo edition of the original work; the second hundred,149 pages; the third, 107; the fourth, 106; the fifth, 04:*—thirdly, that a similar observation applies to the Rotes which areinserted in my translation ; those appended to the early talesbeing necessarily much more copious than the others. * The substance of the first five chapters in my translation, ending with part ofthe thirty-second Night, occupies a hundred and iixty-eight Nights in the edition ofBreslau. PiW I BHfe, * ?mm (way. a ? ! ? ?«$ ml?:?
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