Epic of kings
Subtitle: stories retold from Firdusi
By: by Helen Zimmern ; with two etchings by L. Alma Tadema and a prefatory poem by Edmund W. Gosse
Contributors: Zimmern, Helen, 1846-1934; Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, 1836-1912; Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Published: 1882
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre; peo
Number of pages: 339
Other titles: Stories retold from Firdusi
Work titles: Shāhnāmah
Notes: Based upon Jules Mohl's French translation of: Shāhnāmah.

"Firdusi in exile": p. [xxix]-xlvii.

Edition of 200 copies printed.

The two Alma-Tadema etchings depict: Frontispiece. Near Eastern scene: An archer brings down a stork as onlookers scatter rose petals upon a stream.--Between pages 48 and 49: A man and woman conversing in an Assyrian palace.
Table of contents: title: The shahs of old; title: Feridoun; title: Zal; title: Zal and Rudabeh; title: Rustem; title: The march into Mazinderan; title: Kai kaous committeth more folies; title: Rustem and Sohrab; title: Saiawush; title: The return of Kai Khosrau; title: Firoud; title: The vengeance of Kai Khosrau; title: Byzun and Manijeh; title: The defeat of Afrasiyab; title: The passing of Kai Khosrau; title: Isfendiyar; title: Rustem and Isfendiyar; title: The death of Rustem.