THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BY EDWAR...

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£300 - £500

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BY EDWARD FITZGERALD, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM LIFE STUDIES BY ADELAINE HANSCOM AND BLANCHE CUMMING, PUBLISHED IN LONDON GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO., PORTSMOUTH ST. KINGSWAY W.C., c1908
106 pages, 3 fly papers, top edge gilt, fore and lower edges untrimmed, 27 full-page tipped-in colour plates, 101 quatrains with Persian top and bottom borders in black, colour illustrations after Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming with tissue guards, brown endpapers, bound with brown boards with blue and green peacock feather design to front and spine, gilt-stamped title on the spine, minor wear to the corners

26.2 x 20.2cm