Firdusi [a.k.a. Ferdowsi]; Helen Zimmern [trans.]; L. Alma Tadema [illus.]; Edmund W. Gosse [poem]

The Epic of Kings: Stories Retold from Firdusi [alt. title: Shanameh]

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1882. Very Good-. Item #48006

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1882. First Edition Thus. Folio (34cm); publisher's decorative cloth embossed in yellow, red, blue, gilt, and black, pale green coated endpapers; xlvii,[1],339pp.; engraved frontispiece and one additional plate (table of contents erroneously calls for the first plate to face p. 45). Cloth rather worn and toned at margins, spine especially browned with chip at crown, contemporary ownership ex libris and bookseller ticket to front pastedown; overall a Good or better, internally clean and sound example. Quite scarce.

Price: $250.00