[SPECIAL PRESS] THE GARDEN OF THE NIGHT by Iftikhar Azmi (Translator) | Illustrated by Richard Kennedy - 1979

Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1979. Deluxe Copy. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in full blue Nigerian goatskin by Wetherby Woolnough, with Whittington marbled endpapers, with attractive pictorial decoration in gilt to the upper board and housed in a slipcase; the turn-ins have a gilt rule; there is some fade to the spine; each poem in English and the original Arabic, Persian or Urdu.~~Of 240 copies printed this is Number XXIII of 35 numbered deluxe copies bound. It is signed by the translator and the illustrator. With illustrations by Richard Kennedy, and an etching by him numbered and signed in pencil and loosely inserted, with limitation 15/40. Near Fine binding.