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London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd, [1925]. Limited edition #88/675. Hardcover. Quarto, 150 page. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter white cloth over gray paper boards with gilt titling to spine. Front board stamped in silver with a design of stylized waves and sea shells with white paper label bearing gray titling. Bumping to head and tail of spine and to corners. Bound with grey pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Ten color plates tipped in with printed tissue guards, includes frontispiece, in excellent condition. Mild foxing throughout. "Of this edition 675 copies have been printed for sale in the British Empire, of which this is no. 88." DC Consignment. Shelved in Case 14. 1262171. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Brentano's, 1925. Hardcover. Orig. half white cloth and decorated gray boards. Teg. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. 151 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Ten full-color, tipped-in, full-page illustrations mounted on white art paper, framed with tin and wider grey-green lines, covered with tissue guards printed at top with black letterpress. Limited edition, copy 451 of 625. The London Times Literary critic praised this work, "at his best" and "fantastically Persian," but it was not a commercial success. The American edition also received wide acclaim, "he used the conventional Persian style with perspective, rich in decorative forms and jewel-like colours, bringing out the beauty of minute things by the use of colour and graceful line." [see: HUGHEY 54e]. Lovely, bright and fresh copy, front cover board decorated in silver motifs with paper spine label, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, slight crinkle to spine foot, lower front cover corner.