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c1920 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The Edmund Dulac illustrated edition.
Illustrated with a colour tipped-in frontispiece and eleven tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Collated, complete.
Edward Fitzgerald's notable translations of the poetry (quatrains) of the Persian poet, philosopher and mathematician Omar Khayyam. This edition is accompanied with fantastic colour illustrations from the celebrated artist Edmund Dulac, known for his brilliant book illustrations and for designing the banknotes during World War II.
In the publisher's original cloth with the original, very scarce, unclipped dust wrapper.
Undated, dated by copies held institutionally.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Owner's gift inscription to the pastedown. The wrap is generally smart with sunning to the spine, the odd small chip and closed tear to the extremities, and loss to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and light spotting, heavier to the front and rear.
Near Fine
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