Hardcover. 8vo. 352 pp. with an introduction by Miss Pardoe. Embellished with twelve fine illustrations. Original publishers blue relief-stamped boards with gold design on front and lettering on the spine. Minor shelf wear to boards, especially the edges. Somehwat cocked, interior pages lightly toned with a few finger marks, else fine. 

The Thousand and One Days is a short story collection with Middle Eastern settings first published between the years 1710 and 1712 by the French orientalist François Pétis de la Croix, probably with unacknowledged help from Alain-René Lesage. 

Julia Pardoe was an English poet, novelist, historian and travel writer whose most popular work, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks (1837), presented the Ottoman Turkish upper class with sympathy and humanity.