The Celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare
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
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.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1976)
Production date: AD 1930
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.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 1930.2
Primary reference Number: 102726
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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