RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NAISHAPUR.
London: Essex House Press, 1905.
Limited to 88 copies on paper, this no. 71 (there were also 17 on vellum). Printed for the Omar Khayyam Club. 8vo. viii, 26p. Illustrated with frontispiece and incipit by C. R. Ashbee. In a rather fabulous unsigned binding of full red morocco with end papers of swirling iridescent colors, the spine titled in gilt on a black ground and with two solid gilt vertical panels, the covers with very large decorative gilt corners of grapes and vines and a similar large oval central design, the edges and outer elements outlined in black dots. Very fine. Item #22481
Introductory matter about the Omar Khayyam Club.
Potter 29; Ransom 62.
Price: $2,000.00
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