Author: JAVANESE ART OF POETRY -
Title: Inleiding tot de Javaanse Poesie (sic!). [title on label on front wrapper].
Description: S.L. [Leiden?], s.n. [privately published?], s.d. [circa], 1950. sm. folio. Orig. clothbacked wraps., rectangular title-label on front wrapper. 54pp. of cyclostyled text. A compilation of javanese poetry, being an intoduction into [old] classical Javanese poetry, text in javanese, latin script., with num. examples incl. on the famous poem Baron Sakendèr, being mystical aspects of Mataram's self-image. A curious collection, very probably privately composed and published. (lower outer wrapper gone, some dog-earing, but all in all a reasonable copy).

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