The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1952. Edmund Dulac. Reprint. Leatherbound in clamshell case. 8vo. Pp. 191. Illustrated with twelve full color plates. Binding by Cross: full polished black morocco, titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the spine with five raised bands, hand colored illustration behind Cosway oval window, decorated endpapers, white silk bookmark bound-in, edges gilt. Spine ends rubbed.
In the beige velvet-lined clamshell case covered in black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on black morocco label on the spine. Corners lightly rubbed. Near Fine / Clamshell: Near Fine. Item #6347
Reprints of the first, second, fifth, and variations in the third edition of FitzGerald's translations with biographical preface. Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát were first published in 1909. A handsome issue, splendidly bound and well preserved.
Price: $550.00