Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +---------------------------------------------------+ | 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 consists 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. | +---------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration] The THOUSAND & ONE nights. VOL. I. LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS. 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 [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] ADVERTISEMENT.