Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 198

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, signed by illustrator Edmund Dulac.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.

Limited edition, quarto; number 215 of 750 copies signed by illustrator Edmund Dulac in ink on the limitation; text from Fitzgerald's second edition; illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 color plates mounted to tipped-in leaves with printed tissue guards; bound in full gilt-decorated parchment with the original silk ties preserved, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, all others uncut (occasional pale foxing; half-inch crack to top of upper joint, boards a touch bowed, minor fraying to silk ties); 12 1/4 x 10 in.

Potter 131.