The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: Being the Library Edition of The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment, Sir Richard F Burton (translated from Arabic), Complete in 12 Vols., 1894 ed.Published in London by H. S. Nichols & Co in 1894. This edition of twelve volumes was edited by the friend of the translator Richard Burton, Leonard C Smithers. It is of importance as it reinstates the text originally omitted by Lady Burtons edition. Smithers intention in the restoration was so that this work can finally take its proper place on the library shelf alongside Cervantes and Shakespeare.