Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

[London: Siegle, Hill & Co., 1910]

Folio; an unnumbered and unsigned copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; text from Fitzgerald's 1859 edition printed in red and black, reproducing the calligraphy and illuminations by A. Sutcliffe; illustrated with 12 color plates by E. Geddes; bound in full green morocco, elaborately gilt-stamped onlaid roses and floral cornerpieces and rules, green morocco dentelles with gilt rules, top edge gilt (mostly marginal discoloration to a few plates as usual); housed in a green cloth clamshell box; 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.

Potter 81.