First edition. Octavo. Bound in pleasing contemporary calf, gilt tooling to spine, black calf title label lettered gilt. A very good copy, a little rubbing to the spine and joints.
 
First edition of Scott’s translation of the Arabian Nights, appended to which are his translations of Persian tales.
 
In the preface, he described to contents: “The following Tales are translated almost verbally from an Arabic fragment of the Thousand and One Nights, procured in Bengal, by my friend James Anderson, Esq; who permitted me to take a copy of it. The Manuscript contains the Tales given in Galland, from the introduction to the conclusion of the stories of Zobeide and her Sisters, but with this difference, that in the former hey run through only twnety-nine nights, whereas in the latter the occupy sixty-nine. The tales now translated follow next, but without any division into nights, and these are succeeded by the Adventures of Kummir al Zummaun, with which the fragment concludes.”