BURTON, RICHARD F.: - [Arabic title]. The Kasîdah (Couplets) of Hájî Abdû Al-Yazdi. A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F.B. London, H.J. Cook, 1900.

. Small 4to. Lvs 6, (2); 42. Text printed on one side only. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, upper edges gilt, others untrimmed. Faint traces of erased signature on title. Third edition, limited to 250 copies. Sir Richard Burton wrote this highly praised Oriental poem already in 1857 under his nom-de-plume Hájî Abdû Al-Yazdi but it was not published until 1880 by Bernard Quaritch in London. Preface by Isabel Burton.

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