Condition: slightly spotted
The text is lithographed in elegant nasta‘liq script
Alfred Dehodencq: l’homme et l’artiste (Paris
The copy presented here was printed in Saintes (then Xantes)
Wholly intaglio printed in 188 numbered etched and engraved plates including titles and frontispiece
Lithographed in Tehran Colonial History Condition: slightly spottedAnonymous [Dar al Funun]. Zubdat al Hikayat (The Quintessence of Tales ). Tehran (Dar al Saltanah ye Tehran ), Royal Government Printing Office (Chapkhaneh ye Dowlati ), Nowruz 1285 AH March 1868 CE ( ). 8, 65 pp. Later(?) green morocco, lavishly gold tooled, with flap (rabat ) on the upper cover, smooth spine, blind stamped garland frame on the inside of the flap, edges gilt, white silk paste downs. A rare lithographed Persian book printed in Tehran