| British Library: | 14787.d.75 |
| Curwen Press: | R19 |
| British Library: | 14787.d.75 |
| Curwen Press: | R19 |
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[within 18pt. border of rules and flowers] FARID UD-DIN ATTAR The Conference of The Birds MANTIQ UT-TAIR [short swelled rule] A PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGIOUS POEM IN PROSE [short swelled rule] THE JANUS PRESS LONDON
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... RENDERED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE LITERAL AND COMPLETE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF GARCIN DE TASSY BY S. C. NOTT BRUSH DRAWINGS BY KATE ADAMSON ...
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[11] 2-7 [8] 9-10 [11] 12-8 [19] 20-4 [25] 26-7 [28] 29-54 [55] 56-88 [89] 90-101 [102] 103-33 [134-5] 136 [139] 140 [141] 142-7 [+3].
Demy 8o: 8" × 5¼", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 11(+1)pt. Garamond; line block illustrations; casing, red glazed cloth, spine gold-blocked up: ‘THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS’; printed dust-jacket.
Farid ud-din Attar was a Persian classical Sufi poet.
Joseph H. S. V. Garcin de Tassy, b.1794, was a French orientalist.
20/Dec/1954
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 30/Oct/2017