4. The early editions of the Nights

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. 1. The Thousand and one nights and literary Orientalism in Europe 13
5. 2. Dutch Orientalism before 1700 29
6. 3. Antoine Galland and Ghisbert Cuper 45
7. 4. The early editions of the Nights 53
8. 5. Gilbert de Flines 79
9. 6. Later editions in the eighteenth century 91
10. 7. Dutch Orientalism in the eighteenth century 103
11. Conclusion 133
12. Appendix 1. Bibliographic survey of Dutch editions, 1705-1807 137
13. Appendix 2. The David Coster engravings 141
14. Appendix 3. Text samples of the Dutch Nights 147
15. Appendix 4. French and Dutch quotations 151
16. Illustration credits 157
17. Bibliography 159
18. Index 167