Book Details
| Author: | Wilkinson, J.V.S.: |
| Title: | The Shah-Namah of Firdausi - The Book of the Persian Kings. |
| Published: | London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 15 - Art & Architecture |
| Description: | With 24 illustrations from a Fifteenth-Century Persian Manuscript in the Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society. Described by J.V.S. Wilkinson, With an Introduction on the Paintings by Laurence Binyon. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. xx, 94 pp. Frontispiece & 6 other plates in colour, remaining plates in b/w. An outline of Firdausi's great epic with sketches of the principal stories concentrating mainly on the miniature paintings in the manuscript. Text very clean throughout. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Overall condition VG+. IN VG- illustrated dust wrapper - tear in rear cover. |
| Book Number: | #6079 |
| Price: | € 140.00 |
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