A. Condie Stephen: Fairy Tales of a Parrot. Adapted from the Persian

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A. Condie Stephen : Fairy Tales of a Parrot. Adapted from the Persian

Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton, London & New York, 1892

Contemporary ¼ cloth, decorative paper board with image of a parrot on upper board with title in gilt, flat spine with title in period ink in both English and Persian, paste-down endpapers with floral motifs. , A very good copy., 4to, P. frontis, title, blank, dedication, (3), (81), With 6 tipped-in chromolithograph plates and a profusion of in-text illustrations.

"The twelve stories told by the Parrot are taken from the Persian text of Mehemed Kadiri's abridged version of the Tooti-Name; a book containing tales of Sanskrit origin, completed in the year 730 AH by Ziya ed Deen Nakhshebi" (preface).

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