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Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, limited edition signed by the illustrator.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920.
Limited edition, folio; number 45 of 50 numbered copies signed by illustrator Ronald Balfour (1896-1941); profusely illustrated by him with a hand-colored frontispiece, 6 full-color plates, 14 black-and-white plates with colored highlights, and 18 black-and-white plates, all mounted on Japanese vellum, plus numerous text illustrations of nymphs throughout; bound in publisher's gilt-lettered gold and black buckram, top edge gilt (scattered small stains and smudges; corners bumped, some scuffs and minor scratches, endpapers lightly foxed); 12 x 9 in.
