Published by The Folio Society, London, 1964. The book is in fabulous condition, with dark green cloth-covered boards with red titles on gilt block to spine and red and gilt decorative design to front board. The book's endpapers of a white line map of the Byzantine Empire to front and rear. Comes with nice slipcase. Edited by Michael Edwardes. Attractive colour and gilt frontispiece showing a view of Mecca with the Kaba taken from Khamsah-e-Nizami [Persian circa 1410]. 
 
The book includes chapters on The Early Life of the Apostle of Allah, The Revelation, The Hijra and The Conquest of Mecca.