Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

xvi, 288pp. Green leather-covered boards; blind embossed border on front, gilt titles on spine; text block edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles. 12mo. Sun-faded spine; rubbed corners and spine ends, some loss. Wear and soiling to boards. Gilt fading from top text block edge. dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Hinges cracked and stretching, volume remains tight. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Lalla Rookh, four narrative poems, forms an Oriental romance. Written by Irish poet Thomas Moore and first published in 1817, the title comes from the heroine of the story arch, the daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb.