Weep, ah weep love's losing by Al-QAYS, Imru/BLUNT, Wilfred Scawen/FULLER, Henry (illus)

Clarion Press, 2004. 1st edition thus. Fine decorative card covers as issued. A pre-Islamic poem of love and disaster, from the 6th-century Mu'Allaqat by Imru' al-Qays, translated by Wilfred Scawen Blunt and his wife Lady Anne in 1903, and here furnished with nine double-page illustrations by Henry Fuller in black, gold and blood-red, with 19 pages of calligraphic text printed in sanguine and embellished with numerous erotic initial letters. Finely printed and bound. Signed by the artist and designer. Included is the publisher's Prospectus which reproduces, in double-page A4, one of the illustrations, with information about the book and the illustrator on the reverse.