Weep, ah weep love's losing
by Al-QAYS, Imru/BLUNT, Wilfred Scawen/FULLER, Henry (illus)
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About This Item
Clarion Press, 2004. 1st edition thus. Fine decorative card covers as issued. A pre-Islamic poem of love and disaster, from the 6th-century Mu'Allaqat by Imru' al-Qays, translated by Wilfred Scawen Blunt and his wife Lady Anne in 1903, and here furnished with nine double-page illustrations by Henry Fuller in black, gold and blood-red, with 19 pages of calligraphic text printed in sanguine and embellished with numerous erotic initial letters. Finely printed and bound. Signed by the artist and designer.
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- Shellhouse Books (GB)
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- Title
- Weep, ah weep love's losing
- Author
- Al-QAYS, Imru/BLUNT, Wilfred Scawen/FULLER, Henry (illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Clarion Press, 2004
- Keywords
- Poetry
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