The Arabian Nights
Entertainments;

Consisting of

One Thousand and One Stories,
Told by The Sultaness of the Indies,

To Divert the sultan from the execution of a bloody vow he had
made to marry a Lady every day, and have her cut off next
morning, to avenge himself of the disloyalty of his first
sultaness, &c.

Containing

An accurate account of the customs, manners, and religion, of the
Eastern nations.

In Two Volumes.
Vol. I.

1813




Contents of Volume I.

The story of the genius and the lady shut up in a glass box
The fable of the ass, the ox, and the labourer