Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 203

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) & Edward Fitzgerald, trans. (1809-1883)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with the original illustrated jacket.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1913.

First American edition with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan, quarto; illustrated with a full-color frontispiece and 75 black-and-white plates; bound in the full red publisher's cloth, the front board and spine strikingly gilt-lettered and stamped with flowers, birds, and heart cornerpieces, top edge gilt; with the publisher's red pictorial jacket (jacket faded, spine sunned, minor areas of loss and a few small tears to edges, front hinge repaired at verso; cloth just fraying at corners, toning to endpapers); 10 x 7 1/4 in.

Potter 101.