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Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by W. Pogany.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1930.
Limited edition, quarto; copy number 199 of 750 meant for distribution in England (with another 500 reserved for America), signed by illustrator Willy Pogany on the limitation; text from the first and fourth Fitzgerald editions; this copy extra-illustrated with an original etching signed by Pogany in pencil bound-in between the frontispiece and illustrated title; with 12 mounted color plates including a frontispiece, black-and-white in-text decorations, and more than 40 mounted headpieces; bound in full teal morocco, gilt medallion to front board onlaid with tiny red, orange, purple, and green morocco flowers, spine gilt-lettered, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with others uncut (spine a touch darkened); housed in the original publisher's cardboard pull-top box, numbered "199"; 10 x 7 3/4 in.
