Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, bound by Dudley & Hodge.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1899.

Octavo; text from the first and fifth editions with notes on their differences; in an attractive full dark brown morocco binding by Dudley & Hodge, with onlaid grape motifs on boards and spine, gilt-decorated turquoise morocco doublures, brocade silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (boards with faint discoloration, minor wear at spine ends, endleaves just fraying at foredge); 8 x 5 1/2 in.