Monday 24 April 2017
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald trans., published by Hodder and Stoughton,...
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Lot 18
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald trans., published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909, Dulac, Edmund illustrator. Quarto. (3), 74ff., no 103 of 750 deluxe copies, signed by the illustrator, with twenty enchanting tipped-in colour plates surrounded by decorative borders printed in bronze ink, the text enclosed by ornamental borders, bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, bearing the title in Arabic-inspired lettering and an elaborate border comprised of peacocks, flowers, and elephants, original yellow silk ties, folio 32 x 25cm.
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