The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night

Notes

Several editions exist, usually without publication dates. Most editions were published as limited editions of 1000 copies. Editions of 17 volumes generally contain 10 volumes of the original "1001 Nights" + 7 volumes of "Supplemental Nights". Known named editions, with some bibliographic data (mostly taken from Penzer, "Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton") are:

• Benares Edition (First ed., 1885–88);
• Library Edition (Nichols Ltd., 1897);
• Burton Society of Denver (1900-1901. Penzer, p. 125, says it's the first reprint edition);
• Luristan Edition (c. 1900);
• Samara Edition (c. 1900);
• Adens Edition (c. 1900);
• Shammar Edition (c. 1900);
• Connoisseur Edition (c. 1900, 17 volumes, limited to 100 copies);
• Mecca Edition (1905, 17 volumes, Illustrated, gray cloth cover, paper spine labels. Limited ed. of 1000 copies);
• Bassorah Edition ("early 1900's");
• Burton Ethnological Society (1920);
• Baroda Edition (950 copies, date uncertain);
• Medina Edition;
• Baghdad Edition;
• "Burton Club" edition (c. 1930);
• Limited Edition (Limited Edition Book Club, 1934, and 1954).

• 12 Volumes. Volumes 9-12 comprise the "Supplemental Nights".
• Reprinted from the Original Edition and edited by Leonard C. Smithers.
• The illustrated library edition. With seventy-one illustrations by Albert Letchford.
• Frontispiece portrait of Burton in Volume I.
• Limited edition of 250 (Christie's Auction House says 200).
• Data from Heritage Auctions and from Christie's Auction House.