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[BURTON, Richard Francis]. The Kasndah (couplets) of Hbjn Abd, El-Yezdn: A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil. F.B. London: Quaritch, [1880].
4o (254 x 190 mm). (Without a half-title as called for by Penzer but with the three preliminary leaves.) Contemporary half morocco (rubbing to joints and corners, upper joint cracked, original printed yellow wrappers bound in). Provenance: "A.K." (engraved bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE OF BURTON'S GREATEST POEM, Both issues were "published by Bernard Quaritch, primarily for the use of Burton and his friends" (Penzer p. 97-103). Casada 84; Spink 63.
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FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE OF BURTON'S GREATEST POEM, Both issues were "published by Bernard Quaritch, primarily for the use of Burton and his friends" (Penzer p. 97-103). Casada 84; Spink 63.