Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?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, in a vibrant binding.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.

Later edition, octavo; bound in full green morocco, both boards with onlay decoration featuring red morocco paisleys enhanced with gilt centered around a diamond shaped grid with a gilt flower in each section, spine gilt-lettered, brilliant gilt-tooled red morocco doublures with the matching motifs, moire silk endleaves, all edges gilt (spine faded, a few tiny nicks at extremities; in a custom dark brown morocco pull-off box; 7 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.