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Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by René Bull.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Limited edition, quarto; one of 250 numbered copies signed by Bull in ink on the limitation (this copy unnumbered); with a frontispiece and 9 other full-page color plates mounted onto tipped-in leaves, with their original printed tissue guards, plus 19 smaller plates mounted in-text, and numerous line drawings and decorated borders throughout; bound in full parchment with intricate gilt and blue decorations to front panel, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, all others uncut, with the original blue silk ties preserved (minor spotting to text leaves throughout; parchment darkened in two places, endleaves renewed); housed in a custom patterned paper lined linen clamshell box; 11 x 8 1/2 in.
