BLUNT (Wilfrid Scawen).

The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare. Translated from the Original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt.

London, Reeves and Turner. 1892 First edition. Original red buckram. pp. xii,127. 8vo. Colbeck I, page 73. Wilfrid Blunt was responsible for versifying his wife's prose translation. Both the Blunts had a strong interest in Arabia. Lady Blunt made a celebrated journey to the outlying parts and Blunt himself enjoyed wintering in Cairo. They developed an interest in Arab horses and founded the first Arabian stud in England at their estate Newbuildings in Sussex. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Spine a little faded.

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