(GROLIER CLUB) Khayyám Omar The Rubáiyát

Sale 2088 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 7,200

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

MEUNIER BINDING / HOLDEN COPY (GROLIER CLUB.) Khayyám, Omar. The Rubáiyát. 8vo, beautiful green morocco with gilt, black, and gold interwoven design that create borders, elaborate doublures in repeating blue, red, and green calf flowers with gilt-stamped flowers in between, brocade patterned endpapers, by charles meunier; all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in; 1/4 morocco chemise, spine faded; slipcase; bookplate of Americana collector Edwin B. Holden. New York: Grolier Club, 1885

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number 3 of 150 copies on japan paper. The first copy on Japan after only 2 copies were printed on vellum. Holden joined the Grolier Club in 1888 and shortly thereafter helped form and become the first president of the Club Bindery. This copy sold at the sale of his personal collection on 28 April 1920 for $410.