CURZON, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925). Persia and the Persian Question . London: Longmans, Green, 1892. 2 volumes, 8 (224 x 140mm). 43 half tone plates, 10 maps, including folding map of Persia at end of volume I, illustrations. Original green cloth, with the Shah of Persia's lion-and-sword crest gilt-stamped on upper covers, gilt-lettered spines (slight bubbling to covers, spines a little frayed). FIRST EDITION of this highly-authoritative compendium. As he states in the preface, Curzon visited Persia in the autumn of 1889 as Times correspondent. Finding reliable information about the country to be so scattered that a traveller would need a donkey to carry the sheer volume of reference works needed, he realised "the genuine and imperative need for a compendious work dealing with every aspect of public life in Persia, with its inhabitants, provinces, cities, lines of communication, antiquities, government, institutions, resources, trade, finance, policy, and present and future development -- in a word, with all that has made or continues to make it a nation" (preface p. viii). Curzon expressed himself particularly pleased with the folding map of Persia "which has cost me a year's anxious labour and supervision ... a decisive advance," he hoped, "upon any previous publication." (2)
CURZON, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925). Persia and the Persian Question . London: Longmans, Green, 1892. 2 volumes, 8 (224 x 140mm). 43 half tone plates, 10 maps, including folding map of Persia at end of volume I, illustrations. Original green cloth, with the Shah of Persia's lion-and-sword crest gilt-stamped on upper covers, gilt-lettered spines (slight bubbling to covers, spines a little frayed). FIRST EDITION of this highly-authoritative compendium. As he states in the preface, Curzon visited Persia in the autumn of 1889 as Times correspondent. Finding reliable information about the country to be so scattered that a traveller would need a donkey to carry the sheer volume of reference works needed, he realised "the genuine and imperative need for a compendious work dealing with every aspect of public life in Persia, with its inhabitants, provinces, cities, lines of communication, antiquities, government, institutions, resources, trade, finance, policy, and present and future development -- in a word, with all that has made or continues to make it a nation" (preface p. viii). Curzon expressed himself particularly pleased with the folding map of Persia "which has cost me a year's anxious labour and supervision ... a decisive advance," he hoped, "upon any previous publication." (2)
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