Śakoontalá
Subtitle: or, The lost ring, an Indian drama
By: tr. into English prose and verse from the Sanskrit of Kálidása, by Monier Williams
Contributors: Monier-Williams, Monier, Sir, 1819-1899; De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and company
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Other titles: Lost ring
Notes: On vellum, with illuminated borders, initials and head-pieces

"The first English translation, in prose and verse, of the true and pure version of the most celebrated drama of the Shakspere of India."--Introd., signed M. W., 1856

"This edition, consisting of four copies on vellum, numbered from one to four, and one hundred and ten copies on Japan paper, numbered from five to one hundred and fourteen, was printed in the month of November, 1885, of which this is no. 1."--Theo. L. De Vinne & co

Bound in full green levant morocco and doublure of russet levant morocco tooled in gold, with same designs, by Riviere; gilt edges; original illuminated wrappers bound in at end