Ishtar and Izdubar, the epic of Babylon; or, the Babylonian Goddess of Love and the Hero and Warrior King; constructed from the great Accadian Epic ... found in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets ... now deposited in the British Museum ... Restored in modern verse, by L. Le C. Hamilton, etc
A verse retelling of the Gilgamesh tablets in the British Museum, reconstructed by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton and published in London by W. H. Allen & Co. in 1884 for Victorian readers of the new Assyriology. The plates in the index are engraved foliate tailpieces and headpiece vignettes u2014 ivy, vine leaves, cornflowers, hops and hawthorn arranged in symmetrical sprays, several signed with a small initial monogram u2014 usable as page dividers, chapter marks and small decorative centres.
