The life of Mohammad the prophet of Allah / by E. Dinet and Sliman ben Ibrahim ; illustrated by E. Dinet ; ornamental pages by Mohammad Racim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinet, Etienne, 1861-1929, author, illustrator.

Ben Ibrahim, Sliman, author.

Contributor:

Rāsim, Muḥammad, 1896-1975, designer.

Paris Book Club, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart, associated name, former owner.

Librairie du Palais-Royal (Paris, France), associated name, bookseller.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Muḥammad.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.

Physical Description:

VIII, [2], 177, [1] pages, [47] leaves of color plates : color illustrations, map ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : The Paris Book Club ..., [1918]

Notes:

Arabic title at head of title leaf.

"This book was issued from the press on the thirtieth of August 1918 for the Paris Book Club"--Colophon.

"This work is issued in a strictly limited edition of 125 copies of imperial Japanese vellum with an extra suite of the plates and 875 copies on hand-made paper. No. [blank]"--Page opposite title page.

"Our scaffolding and sketches are borrowed from very ancient authors such as Ibn Hisham, Ibn Sad, etc., without forgetting a more modern writer, Ali Borhan id-Dinal-Halabi who, in his book known by the title 'Es sirat'al Halabia', gathered together different versions from all the best-known historians."--Preface.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare BP75 .D52 1918 imperfect: frontispiece plate (ornamental page) wanting. Formerly owned by Gotham Book Mart with its label on inside back wrapper. Number 983 (the copy number supplied with a stamp) of a limited edition of 125 copies of imperial Japanese vellum with an extra suite of the plates and 875 copies on hand-made paper; see page opposite title page. Wrappers detached; copy disbound. Two copies of prospectus ([4] pages, [2] leaves of color plates : color illustrations ; 33 cm) for this work laid in, one with wrappers, one without, both with blue ink stamp ("LIBRAIRIE DU PALAIS-ROYAL 9, Rue de Beaujolais, PARIS-I TÉL. LOUVRE 48-74") at head of page [1].

OCLC:

1944121