Pand-nāmah.
[GLADWIN, Francis (translator)].
A compendium of ethics, translated to English from the Persian of Sheikh Sady of Shiraz.
Stock Code 96506
Calcutta, from the Press of Stuart and Cooper, 1788.
a beautifully printed edition of an important Sufi text
A prolific translator of Persian literature, Gladwin's (d. circa 1813) patron was Warren Hastings. With a remarkable linguistic ability he became a Professor of Persian at Fort William College in Calcutta in 1800, having served in the Bengal Army. His translations were elegant and precise, and accompanied by the original Persian text, as here in this translation of Attar's Book of Wisdom, which he misattributes to Sa'di.Scarce. ESTC lists institutional copies at BL, Cambridge, Oxford, and SOAS only in UK; LoC only in U.S.A.; 4 copies in Europe.
First edition. 8vo, [5], 35, 35, [1] pp., complete with half-title, parallel English and Persian texts, test within wavy borders, 2 pages of early manuscript at end, old woodcut stamp to verso of half-title, twentieth century tree calf gilt, morocco labels, a fine example.
Shaw (Printing in Calcutta), 111.
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