xii 1032 pages. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. Three quarter leather with marbled end papers, and raised spine with gilt title. The leather is chipped at the edges and the boards rubbed; the front hinge is cracked, though the binding remains solid; and there is intermittent foxing throughout the book. For all its faults, which I think add character to the book, it remains an attractive cop: clean, unmarked and solid. The date 1884 was taken from Trove as the book offers none. Full title: 'The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Illustrated by Six Hundred Engravings in Wood.' "Edward Forster FRS FSA (1769-1828) was an English cleric and miscellany writer.....Forster entered into an engagement with a bookseller, William Miller of Old Bond Street, subsequently of Albemarle Street, to issue tastefully printed editions of the works of standard authors, illustrated by the best artists of the day. His first venture was an edition of Charles Jervas's translation of Don Quixote (1801). Having been successful in this, he published some lesser works of less importance, while he was preparing for the press a new translation, from the French of Antoine Galland, of the Arabian Nights (1802), with twenty-four engravings from pictures by Robert Smirke, R.A. During the same year he brought out an edition of Anacreon, for which William Bulmer furnished a Greek font; the title-plates and vignettes were by Lavinia Forster. Editions of dramatic authors followed, under the titles of British Drama, New British Theatre, and English Drama. An edition of Rasselas, with engravings by Abraham Raimbach from pictures painted by Smirke, was issued by Forster in 1805; it was followed in 1809 by a small privately printed volume of verse, entitled Occasional Amusements, which appeared without his name." (Wikipedia)