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Pp. xxxii, 470, 71 illustrations engraved in wood by Paul Landacre, 6 of them full-page two-color engravings. Original ornately gilt-decorated quarter-morocco (from wallaby) over wood veneer boards (hardcover), in the original onion-skin dust jacket, in green cloth-covered slipcase, sm 4to (8" x 10-3/4"). This work was not sold commercially, it was issued in a limited edition of 1500 numbered copies, this being copy #989. The introduction to the volume is by Sir Charles G. Darwin, grandson of the author. Freeman 598. No ownership marks and no signs of use.

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi is a long poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," who is widely considered an invention by the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title "Lay of the Higher Law." In notes following the poem, Burton claims to have received the manuscript from his friend Haji Abdu, a native of Darabghird in the Yezd Province of Persia. Describing Haji Abdu, Burton writes that he spoke an array of languages and notes that "his memory was well-stored; and he had every talent save that of using his talents."