Physical description

TAN CLOTH AND CARDBOARD COVER WITH CIRCULAR GOLD TOOLED STAMPING IN MIDDLE OF FRONT COVER, DARK BROWN LINES OUTLINE THE FRONT COVER. STICKER WITH BLACK PRINTING AFFIXED TO TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

PAGE 5 - SIGNATURE OF R.H. BLAND
ON FRONT COVER - IN GOLD PRINTING "TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES - FULGER EXIT AB ORIENT"

Summary

A knowledge of the commonplace, at least, of Oriental literature, philosophy, and religion is as necessary to the general reader of the present day as an acquaintance with the Latin and Greek classics was a generation or so ago. Immense strides have been made within the present century in these branches of learning; Sanskrit has been brought within the range of accurate philology, and its invaluable ancient literature thoroughly investigated;...