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245 14 $aThe Gulistān :$bor, Rose-garden of Shekh Muṣliḥuʼd-dīn Sādī of Shīrāz /$ctranslated for the first time into prose and verse, with an introductory preface, and a life of the author, from the Ātish Kadah, by Edward B. Eastwick ...
246 18 $aGulistān of Saʻdī.
260 $aHertford [England] :$bPrinted and published by Stephen Austin ... ,$c1852.
300 $a[4], xxx, [2], 308, [4] p. :$b4 ill. (chromolithographs) ;$c23 cm.
500 $aHalf-title in Persian surrounded with a full-page intricate pattern of nested wood-engraved decorative borders printed in gold and red.
500 $aT.p. verso with printer's imprint: "Stephen Austin, Printer, Hertford.".
500 $aText printed within decorative wood-engraved red borders.
500 $aWith wood-engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces printed in red.
500 $aPublisher's advertisements on p. [4] at end.
500 $aChromolithographed illustrations with imprint: "M & N Hanhart, Imp.".
500 $a"Of the plates contained in this book, three are facsimile reproductions of illuminations contained in a MS. copy of the Gulistān in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society ... The illuminated border at the commencement of the Life of Saʻdī is from a MS. copy of the Kur'ān which was taken from Mīr Nasīr Khān, of Kelāt, at the battle of Dādar, and is now in the possession of the Translator."--Preface.
504 4 $aMcLean, Ruari. Victorian book design,$cp. 172.
504 4 $aMcLean, Ruari. Victorian publishers' book-bindings in cloth and leather,$cp. 58.
590 $aMASS copy 1: Bound in light green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold; a.e.g. With the Persian half-title design from within the text blocked in gold on the upper and lower covers. Endpapers printed in gold with decorative designs replicated from within the text and with imprint: "Bound by Stephen Austin, Hertford.".$5CaOTMC
590 $aMASS copy 2: Bound in light green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold in the same design and with the same endpapers and binder's imprint as copy 1; a.e.g.$5CaOTMC
655 7 $aChromolithographs$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1852.$2gmgpc
655 7 $aGold blocked bindings$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1852.$2rbbin
700 1 $aEastwick, Edward Backhouse,$d1814-1883
710 2 $aM. & N. Hanhart (Firm)
710 2 $aStephen Austin and Sons$e(printer, binder)
039 $aMcLean MC 12$ecop. 1
100 1 $aSaʻdī.
240 10 $aGulistān.$lEnglish
949 $aMcLean O 0546$wASIS$c1$i4756169-1001$lRAREBOOKS$mMASSEY$rN$sY$tBOOK$u24/1/2003
949 $aMcLean O 0546$wASIS$c2$i4756169-1002$lRAREBOOKS$mMASSEY$rN$sY$tBOOK$u24/1/2003