Original edition published by Oxford University Press, London, 1938-9 under the auspices of the American Institute for Iranian Art & Archeology.

Second edition published 1964, with addenda 1967 under the auspices of the Asia Institute, Shiraz, Iran (formerly the American Institute for Iranian Art & Archeology)

Third edition with bibliography and addenda, published 1977, under the auspices of the Shahbanu Farah Foundation and the National Iranian Radio and Television to commemorate fifty years of the Pahlavi dynasty

Second impression, 1981, to commemorate the centennial of Arthur Upham Pope

On cover of volume 13: An Asia Institute book

Includes bibliographies and indexes