In the title compound, C26H22N2O5, the system consisting of five fused rings, being essentially planar with an r.m.s. deviation from the least-squares plane of 0.049 (3) Å, makes a dihedral angle of 58.72 (12)° with the plane of the ethyl carboxyl-ate group immediately attached to it, and a dihedral angle of 89.48 (14)° with the plane of the ethyl carboxyl-ate group attached via the -CH2- bridge. Bond lengths indicate π-delocalization over the whole penta-cyclic system. The mol-ecular conformation is stabilized by a weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond. In the crystal, mol-ecules form stacks along the b-axis direction, neighboring mol-ecules within each stack being related by inversion and the shortest distance between the centroids of the pyridine rings within the stack being 3.667 (2) Å.