Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Susan Allix.

London: Susan Allix, 1973.

Limited edition, quarto; number 30 of 75 copies numbered and signed by Allix in ink on the colophon, this being one of 50 copies bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; illustrated with 27 copper-etched color designs, many full-page, some double-page, including borders and vignettes; bound in full red morocco, gilt-decorated front board, spine gilt-lettered, speckled endpapers, edges uncut (spine and front board lightly sunned); housed in a custom felt-lined red cloth clamshell box; 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.