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BROWNE, Edward Granville.
A Year among the Persians.
Impressions as to the Life, Character, & Thought of the People of Persia received during Twelve Months' Residence in that Country in the Years 1887-1888. With a Memoir by Sir E. Denison Ross.
Publisher: Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926
Stock code: 51801
Price: £250 Currency Conversion
First published in 1893, here re-issued with an important memoir of his life by E. Denison Ross. "In 1887 Browne was elected to a fellowship at Pembroke College, and this enabled him to pay his first and, as it turned out, his only visit to Persia… this country became thenceforth the central object of his studies and the absorbing interest of his life. He visited Tabriz, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, and Kerman, avoiding European society as much as possible, and throwing himself with ever-increasing interest into the company of Persians, mystics, dervishes, and Kalandars, whose friendship and confidence he gained to a degree hitherto unparalleled…A Year amongst the Persians …was later included among the foremost classics of travel in English literature, did not at the time attract the attention it deserved, and was not reprinted until 1926, after his death. It is remarkable for his sympathetic portrayal of aspects of Persian society which few, if any, Europeans had ever seen, including a frank account of the effects of opium." (ODNB) Armorial bookplate of Sir Gervase Beckett to the front pastedown, later similar of Francis Slinger to the front free. A very nice copy.
Large octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine within gilt panel, gilt panel to the upper board enclosing an elaborate gilt roundel, top edge gilt, others uncut. Portrait frontispiece, folding map at the rear. Spine slightly sunned, mild spotting to the upper board, else very good.
