The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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"The Rubaiyyat." needs no introduction, but this copy requires a detailed description. The red mock leather front cover has extravagant gilt titles with exquisite palace and garden illustration also in bright gilt and can be rated VG+, the spine is lightly worn and sunned as is the top half of the back board with a narrowing extension to the lower edge adjacent the spine, with a small area of surface wear top corner, with a much smaller wear mark lower front corner, all corners lightly bumped with trace of wear. Plain e/papers lightly browned, text block otherwise excellent, no inscriptions. All pages from and including the half title have an ornate golden border of intricate Eastern design. The title page carries a mono decoration similar to the front illustration with gold coloured titles above. The four tipped-in colour paintings by Charles Robinson, including the frontis, are in excellent condition with light creasing to lower inner corners. This edition of 94 pages repeats the introduction of Laurence Houseman which appeared in the 1859 printing, translation by Edward Fitzgerald. This edition is not dated, but probably from the mid-1920s. N° de ref. del artículo 003529

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