Supplemental Nights

TO THE BOOK OF THE

Thousand Nights and a Night

WITH ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

VOLUME 6

RICHARD F. BURTON

A circular calligraphic device or seal in Arabic script, which reads "The Pilgrim, Servant of God" original: "Al-Hajj 'Abd Allah", a pseudonym used by Richard F. Burton to reflect his travels in the Middle East.

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The "Burton Club" was a private society formed to publish these volumes. This allowed the work to be distributed to subscribers while avoiding the strict Victorian obscenity laws that applied to public commercial books.