The heroines of ancient Persia : stories retold from the Shāhnāma of Firdausi /
Bapsy Pavry, Marchioness of Winchester (1906-1995)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3193605
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 111, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Loosely inserted: publisher's advertisement folder ([4]p.) with specimens and separate order form. Rear endpaper pencil manuscript page references. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn May 1930" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold cover ornament, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Bapsy Pavry, Marchioness of Winchester (1906-1995), author Firdawsī, author