Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
A 1906 travel and research book on Persia by the American Indologist A. V. Williams Jackson, published in New York and London by Macmillan for general readers interested in Persian history and religion. The four photographic plates, printed sideways here, show a walled stone fortress with figures in the foreground, a row of robed travellers on a dusty road beside a tall building, a ruined stone structure with a doorway, and a close view of rough-hewn rock blocks around a carved niche; a designer might draw on their sepia tones and weathered masonry for ancient or desert settings.
