Title: The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called in England the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. Complete three volume set. 
Author: Edward William Lane and Stanley Lane-Poole (Translators).
Publisher: London, John Murray, 1859. 
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 6.5 ".
Pages: xxx-555, xii-578, xii-703 pages.
 
This is a beautiful and rare set of books. Bound in the original publishers green cloth with gilt decorated front cover and spine. The boards are in very good, clean condition with some bumping to the corners and light shelf wear. The contents are lightly age toned with some minor occasional foxing but otherwise beautifully clean and bright. The endpapers appear to have been replaced and are therefore exceptionally clean. Hinges strong, binding tight. A truly beautiful set
 
Edward William Lane was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and the Arabic-English Lexicon, as well as his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Kur-án.
 
Illustrated with 'many hundred' (600) engravings on wood from original designs by William Harvey. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Harvey was the son of a bath-keeper. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to Thomas Bewick, and became one of his favorite pupils. Bewick describes him as one "who both as an engraver & designer, stands preeminent" at his day (Memoir, p. 200). He engraved many woodblocks for Bewick's Aesop's Fables (1818). 
His masterpieces are his illustrations to Northcote's Fables (1823–33) and to E. W. Lane's The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (1838–40).