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17951227232 vols. Bath: Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson etc. 1795. 2 vols. 8vo xii 2 248 Preliminary Discourse 266; viii 519 12 indexpp. Engraved fold-out map of Arabia three genealogical tables two folding and a plate illustrating "The Temple of Mecca" all from the 1735 first edition. Old calf rebacked a good copy tears in folding map repaired. § Fourth edition the first thus of the first translation of the Koran into English. Peter Harrington notes: "George Sale c.1696-1736 although a solicitor by profession was also a leading orientalist having acted as corrector to the SPCK's Arabic translation of the New Testament 1727. His translation is prefixed by a long "preliminary discourse" a compendium of all that was known about the religion of Islam itself separately translated into and published in several languages. In 1921 Edward Denison Ross claimed that Sale's version had not yet been superseded and more than fifty years later Sale's objectivity still guarded him from criticism in Edward Said's Orientalism 1978." Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson [etc.] unknown books