Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 393

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(RUBÁIYÁT.) Omar Khayyám. The Rubáiyat. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Introduction by A. C. Benson. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Color plates and illuminated initials, heightened in gold. Folio, original gilt-pictorial vellum peacock binding with spine label, covers only very slightly but naturally discolored and lightly bowed. number 233 of 550 copies signed by the publisher. London: Siegle, Hill & Co, (1911)