The Story Of The City Of Brass

The Arabian Nights, their best-known tales, Kate Douglas Wiggins, Nora A. Smith, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; London, 1935, Illustrated by Maxfield Parish

Thousand and one Nights in three Volumes, Edward Willimas Lane, John Murray, 1859, Illustrated by engravings on wood from designs by William Harben, Edited by Edward Stanley Poole

"We have heard from those who were before us, that God bestowed not upon any one the power which He bestowed upon Solomon so that he used to imprison the genies and the devils in bottles of brass, and pour molten lead over them, and seal a cover over them with his signet."

      Two men are sent to search for imprisoned Jinn. While on their journey they find a castle built of black stone and a horseman made of brass pointing the way to the City of Brass. On their journey, they encounter an Ifrit who tells them how he was imprisoned by Soloman for his arrogance. 

     The men finally find the city, however, it is empty save for a embalmed lady who tells them of her destruction. One of the men is killed and the other continues to the coast and finds the imprisoned Jinn. He brings them back to the Caliph who releases them and they fly off asking for forgivness.