Shah Nameh: Stories Retold from Firdusi

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  • hardcover
  • New York: Edwin Hill, 1906
By ZIMMERN, Helen
New York: Edwin Hill, 1906. hardcover. very good(+). Prefatory poem by Edmund Gosse. Tall thick 8vo, burgundy cloth, paper label. Printed on Italian hand-made paper, unopened and untrimmed. New York: Edwin Hill, 1906. Very good (+).

One of only 206 numbered copies signed by the publisher. A classic in Persian folklore. The book calls for 2 illustrations by Alma Tadema but they are not present, nor do they appear to have been removed.


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