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Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, in an elaborate Rivière binding.
London: [Charles Whittingham & Griggs at the Chiswick Press for] Robt. Rivière & Son, 1928.
Limited edition, octavo; text from the first Fitzgerald edition printed in blue and black; with 12 hand-colored illustrations Gilbert James, original tissue guards preserved; finely bound in pictorial caramel-colored morocco by Rivière, boards with the text from Quatrain 58 tooled in gilt within an elaborate border incorporating grape motifs and a multi-colored snake coiled around a gilt chalice, all edges gilt (spine darkened, joint repairs starting, wear at spine head, minor chipping to edges, minor rubbing to lower board); 8 x 5 3/8 in.
