The Book of the Thousand and one Nights. Volume 1 - Paperbackby J. C. Mardrus (Editor), E. P. Mathers (Editor) First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten's Calcutta Edition of the original (1839 42). Back Jacket The Thousand Nights and One Night is familiar to most of us through the Tales of the Arabian Nights.