A Hand-List: Arranged Alphabetically Under the Titles, of the Turkish and Other Printed and Lithographed Books Presented by Mrs. E. J. W. Gibb to the Cambridge University Library (Classic Reprint)

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The books in this collection fall into three main classes, namely, Turkish texts, Persian and Arabic texts, and books of European authorship on these and other kindred lan guages and literatures. Of these three classes the first is by far the most important. Its importance lies in the fact that, though most branches of Turkish literature are represented, it is especially rich in poetry and belles lettres including the writings of the New School which began to develop about the year 1859, and which has so entirely revolutionized the canons of taste, style and literary form which dominated all the preceding period. Mr Gibb's library was, indeed, formed with a special object, namely, to supply all the requisite materials for his exhaustive History of Ottoman Poetry, of which only the first volume appeared in his lifetime, and of which I have since brought out three more volumes from the materials he leftl. For this particular purpose, therefore, the present collection is admirably adapted, since neither trouble nor expense was spared to make it as complete as possible.

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