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The Celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare: PB 1930.2

Object information

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Titles

The Celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare

Maker(s)

Author: Abu Obeyd, 728?-824?
Author: Abu Zaid, al-Hil¯al¯i.
Translator: Blunt, Lady Anne
Translator: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Printer: Maynard, R. A.
Binder (person): Fisher, George (book binder)
Binder (person): Gregynog Press Bindery
Publisher: Gregynog Press

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Description

Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt ; and done unto verse by Wilfred Scawen Blunt.

With: a bookseller's bill from Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1976.

Sometimes attributed to Abu Zaid and to Abu Obeyd.

Ix,[3],73p, [1] leaf of plates : col. ill ; 31cm.

Place(s) associated

  • Newtown

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1976)

Dating

Production date: AD 1930

Note

Printed by R. A. Maynard at the Gregynog Press ... The decorations were designed and engraved by the Printer, and were coloured by hand at Gregynog. Compositor: R. O. Jones; Pressman: H. J. Hodgson. The edition is limited to 275 copies."--Colophon Museum has copy no. 11, one of 25 copies designed and bound at the Gregynog Bindery by George Fisher. Binding: Green levant morocco, gilt rolled border; spine & board edges gilt, border gilt on inside covers, 5 raised bands on spine , gilt lettering; top edge of pages gilt. Issued in slipcase.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 1930.2
Primary reference Number: 102726
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 January 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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