Item #CL199-43 The Epic Of Kings: Stories Retold From Firdusi [Book]. Helen Zimmern, 1846–1934 Brit.
The Epic Of Kings: Stories Retold From Firdusi [Book]
The Epic Of Kings: Stories Retold From Firdusi [Book]
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The Epic Of Kings: Stories Retold From Firdusi [Book]

1882. Hardcover quarto with gilt impressed and coloured board, gilt and deckled top and fore-edge, inscribed in ink on title page, 34.5 x 27cm. Soiling, rubbing and wear to covers, large stain to second etching, slight discolouration to edges of pages, cracking to hinges.

Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 339pp, with two engravings signed in plate by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836–1912), with tissue guards, and a “prefatory poem” by Edmund W. Gosse. Inscription reads “To Rosalind Elaine Lois Smith, from her very affectionate father Arthur J. Smith, 1905.”

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Item #CL199-43

Price (AUD): $1,100.00  other currencies

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