Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 2,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BINDING.) Khayyam, Omar. The Rubáiyát. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated with 12 photogravure plates after Gilbert James. 8vo, full decorative morocco gilt by Bayntun, with panel depicting part of a scene from one of the plates with colored onlays, enclosed by vine and foliate gilt border, spine with vine and foliate design in 6 compartments, all edges gilt; gilt turn-ins, silk endpapers, printed color and Brooklyn Library bookplates on facing blank prelims; slipcase with finger-hole and location number. Handsomely bound, with strong impressions of the plates. London: George Routledge/New York: E.P. Dutton, [c.1904]