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Indian lithographic printing Urdu poetry

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Indian lithographic printing Urdu poetry all 8vo and in contemporary half leather bindings unless otherwise stated, all with marbled paper sides, title-pages with decorative floral borders, variable browning, works comprising: 1) Ilahi Baksh Sha'iq. Gulzar-i manzum ['A Rose Garden of Poetry']. Kanpur: Matba' Nizami, 1294 AH [1877 CE]. 146 pp., floral borders throughout, original card wrappers printed in orange bound in, wear to foot of spine, marginal worming, text-block remaining attached to binding by one cord only; 2) Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1800). Muntakhab ['Selected Poems']. [?Hyderabad:] Matba' Haydari, c.1900. Contemporary half cloth, 220 pp., worming, textblock near-detached from binding; 3) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Bagh-i Iram ['Garden of Iram', an Urdu translation from the Persian of selected works]. Mumbai: Matba' Fath Al-Karim, c.1880. 130 pp., worming, stitching split, held by one cord; 4) Mirza Muhammad Rafi' Sauda (1713-1781). Kulliyat ['Collected Poems']. Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. 4to, 488 pp., title-page and final leaf repaired, lacking pp. 41-4; 5) Samelband of three works]. i) Sadiq 'Ali Shah. Diwan. Mumbai: Matba' Fath al-Karim Biradiran [brothers], Qadi Ibrahim Sahib, 1297 AH [1879/80 CE]. 68 pp; ii) Ghalib (1797-1868). Diwan. Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1879. 1-2 103 3-4 pp.; iii) Abad Lakhnavi (1813-1845). Baharistan-i Sukhan ['The Spring Garden of Language'], Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1881. 1-2 230 3-4 pp., worm track in text towards rear; and one other similar (Shaykh Isma'il, Jami' al-Karamat Hasanayn[?], Mumbai: Muhammadi Press, 1886, religious poetry, 83 pp., text-block loose in binding, original wrappers bound in, marginal loss to rear wrapper) Qty: (6) Note: Sadiq 'Ali Shah is described in the colophon as a Sufi master, and another lithographic edition of his Diwan was published at Kanpur by the Matba' Majidi, but little else about him is discoverable.

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Indian lithographic printing Urdu poetry all 8vo and in contemporary half leather bindings unless otherwise stated, all with marbled paper sides, title-pages with decorative floral borders, variable browning, works comprising: 1) Ilahi Baksh Sha'iq. Gulzar-i manzum ['A Rose Garden of Poetry']. Kanpur: Matba' Nizami, 1294 AH [1877 CE]. 146 pp., floral borders throughout, original card wrappers printed in orange bound in, wear to foot of spine, marginal worming, text-block remaining attached to binding by one cord only; 2) Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1800). Muntakhab ['Selected Poems']. [?Hyderabad:] Matba' Haydari, c.1900. Contemporary half cloth, 220 pp., worming, textblock near-detached from binding; 3) Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Bagh-i Iram ['Garden of Iram', an Urdu translation from the Persian of selected works]. Mumbai: Matba' Fath Al-Karim, c.1880. 130 pp., worming, stitching split, held by one cord; 4) Mirza Muhammad Rafi' Sauda (1713-1781). Kulliyat ['Collected Poems']. Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, c.1880. 4to, 488 pp., title-page and final leaf repaired, lacking pp. 41-4; 5) Samelband of three works]. i) Sadiq 'Ali Shah. Diwan. Mumbai: Matba' Fath al-Karim Biradiran [brothers], Qadi Ibrahim Sahib, 1297 AH [1879/80 CE]. 68 pp; ii) Ghalib (1797-1868). Diwan. Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1879. 1-2 103 3-4 pp.; iii) Abad Lakhnavi (1813-1845). Baharistan-i Sukhan ['The Spring Garden of Language'], Lucknow: Matba' Munshi Nawal Kishore, 1881. 1-2 230 3-4 pp., worm track in text towards rear; and one other similar (Shaykh Isma'il, Jami' al-Karamat Hasanayn[?], Mumbai: Muhammadi Press, 1886, religious poetry, 83 pp., text-block loose in binding, original wrappers bound in, marginal loss to rear wrapper) Qty: (6) Note: Sadiq 'Ali Shah is described in the colophon as a Sufi master, and another lithographic edition of his Diwan was published at Kanpur by the Matba' Majidi, but little else about him is discoverable.

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