| British Library: | V8039 |
| Curwen Press: | D4 |
| British Library: | V8039 |
| Curwen Press: | D4 |
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SHAH ABDUL LATIF By M. M. Gidvani With a Foreword by Sir Thomas Arnold, C.I.E. [in red, the square block of the India Society, London] THE INDIA SOCIETY 3 VICTORIA STREET LONDON 1922
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[1-6]4; insert after [1]1v.
[1-7] 9-10 [11] 12-13 [14-15] 16-18 [19] 20-1 [22] 23-4 [25] 26-35 [36] 37-47 [+1].
Demy 8o: top edge only trimmed, 8¾" × 5¾", white laid, Haesbeek, loaded paper insert 5½" × 4" tipped in by right edge to [1]1v; 12(+1½)pt. Caslon with 3-line dropped initials; halftone portrait on insert; casing, brown cloth, blocked up spine: ‘SHAH ABDUL LATIF’ and on upper cover: ‘SHAH ABDUL LATIF by M. M. Gidvani’
Bhittai, 1689-1782, was a sindhi Sufi scholar, saint and spiritual poet.
500 copies printed according to Curwen index
See Simon 1973 p.235: the Catalogue raisonné ascribes the lettering on the cloth boards to Percy J. Smith.
NPG ODNB
Robin Phillips, 1963