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THE POEM OF AMRIOLKAIS (Limited Edition) by Sir William Jones
Shaftesbury: High House Press, 1930
8vo, 27pp. Original hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine. With 4 woodcuts. Printed on mould made paper.
Limited edition of 200 copies, of which this is no. 53.
One of seven poems hanged in the Islamic Kaaba, predating the birth of Muhammad.
Sir William Jones(1746-1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784.
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