BINYON, LAURENCE: - The Poems of Nizami. London, The Studio Limited, (1928).

. Folio. Pp. (viii), 30, (34). Wide margins. With sixteen coloured plates. Original red cloth in colour pictorial dust wrappers. First edition, first trade edition. The manuscript of Nizami's Poems contains the miniatures here reproduced. Fredrik Martin, a renowned Swedish orientalist, calls this "the finest sixteenth-century Persian manuscript in existence". The text includes Shah Tahmasp and his Painters, the Life of Nizami, the Five Poems, Painting in Persia, etc. A beautiful copy. Ref. Sims, 136.