H. Burton. [21] Mr. Frederic Harrison. [22] Mr. Frederic Harrison. [23]
P. G. Hamerton. [24] Richard of Bury (lived 1281-1345). [25] M. Octave
Uzanne. [26] Mr. A. L. Humphreys. [27] Mr. Frederic Harrison. [28] Mr.
A. L. Humphreys. [29] There is no doubt that Burton was largely indebted
to Payne for his 'translation'; indeed he is said merely to have
paraphrased and rearranged the version which Payne had just previously
prepared for the Villon Society, adding explanatory notes of a character
which renders it essential that his edition be kept under lock and key.
It was issued to subscribers by Burton himself in London (though
ostensibly 'by the Kamashastra Society at Benares'), being printed, and
probably bound, by Brill at Leyden. The Kamashastra Society was a myth.
The ten volumes (1885-6) were sold to the subscribers at ten guineas the
set, and the entire edition (1000) was subscribed for before
publication. (_Ex inform_: E. H.-A., one of the original subscribers and
a friend of Burton.) Six volumes of _Supplemental Nights_ were issued by
Burton between 1886 and 1888. A set of the sixteen volumes now costs
about forty pounds. It was reprinted (by H. S. Nichols) in 1894, in
twelve volumes, only slightly expurgated, the present price being about
twelve pounds. A supplementary volume of illustrations was issued with
this last edition. [30] Mr. Frederic Harrison. [31] Isaac Disraeli.
[Illustration] CHAPTER IV CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE 'Mekely, lordynges
gentyll and fre, Lysten awhile and herken to me.' HUE DE ROTELANDE. ONCE
upon a time, long long before the Ve
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