Waring, Edward Scott

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

A Tour to Sheeraz, by the route of Kazroon and Feerozabad. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807
paper

FIRST LONDON EDITION, 4to (272 x 205mm.), [ii], v-xiv, [ii], 330pp., 2 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, red label, pink endpapers, edges gilt and gauferred

Literature

Ghani p.387; Wilson p.240

Catalogue Note

The first edition of this work was published in Bombay in 1804 (see lot 1320). This London edition has a greatly expanded section on the language and poetry of Persia and was "an important book in its day as it constitutes one of the first attempts to introduce Persian poetry to the West. Byron's reference to Persia poets, especially Hafez, in his English Bards comes from Waring" (Ghani).