Lane, Edward W.

Richard James Lane: Edward William Lane (1829)

Edward William Lane
(1801-1876)

Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836) and his work on the Arabic-English Lexicon (1842-93), as well as his influential translation of the 1001 Nights (1838-41).

Of the latter, Lane himself said:

There is one work … which represents most admirable pictures of the manners and customs of the Arabs, and particularly of those of the Egyptians; it is The Thousand and One Nights; or, Arabian Nights' Entertainments: if the English reader had possessed a close translation of it with sufficient illustrative notes, I might almost have spared myself the labour of [compiling Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians].

E. W. Lane: The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41)

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Books:


1. Lane, E. W. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. 1836. Ed. E. Stanley Poole. Everyman’s Library 315. London: Dent, New York: Dutton, 1963.


2. The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. Trans. Edward William Lane. 3 vols. London: Charles Knight, 1839-41.


3. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights; Commonly Called The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. 1839-41. Ed. Edward Stanley Poole. 3 vols. 1859. London: Chatto, 1912.


4. Lane, Edward William, trans. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. 1839-41. Ed. Stanley Lane-Poole. 1859. 4 vols. 1906. Bohn’s Popular Library. London: G. Bell, 1925.


5. Selections from the Kur-án (1843)


6. [with Stanley Lane-Poole] Arabic-English Lexicon (1842-93).


7. Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies from the Thousand and One Nights. Ed. Stanley Lane-Poole (1883).

William Harvey" Design for The Thousand and One Nights (1839)

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Edward William Lane (1801-1876)