omar khayham (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Gilbert James Ilustrador. 4th Edition. 8vo. Original gilt green cloth pictorial with top edge gilt, on fine hand made paper, this is the 5th over all edition of the Rubaiyats with photo etchings after original drawings by Gilbert James, 2nd issue after the 1898 first, an early American edition of this classic Persian poem from the 12 th century, includes the texts of the of the first four editions and notes a Fine Copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No DJ as Issued. Adelaide Hanscon and Blanche Cumming Ilustrador. 1st Edition 2nd Issue. Dodge Publishing Company, New York, 1912. Hanscon, Adelaide. Oriental Edition. Text of the Fourth Edition. 28 full page sepia-tone collotype photographs by Adelaide Hanscom. 212 pp. Printed recto onlya single volume 4to THis is A LANDMARK IN BOOK-ILLUSTRATION: HANSCOM'S PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE RUBAIYAT. Brilliant photographically illustrated edition of Fitzgerald's esteemed translation of the Rubaiyat, with ornamental page-borders and 28 photogravures on tissue by Adelaide Hanscom, pioneer in the use of photographs for the illustration of books. Adelaide Hanscom's marvelous photographs for the Rubaiyat are in keeping with the "pictorialist" tradition of photography. Hanscom achieved her luminous and visionary style through sophisticated techniques and her reputation was secured by her groundbreaking photographic illustrations for this 1905 Rubaiyat, one of the first American books to use photography for fine art illustration. Potter 258 Off-white buckram with colored lettering and deco With Illustrations from Life Studies by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming. Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosophy, and, most notably, poet, who lived from 1048-1131. This beautiful book was translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, who is considered the principal authority on Khayyam's poetry. Enhanced with twenty-eight exquisite double-mounted photos of watercolours of 'Persian life-studies', protected by glassine guards. Photos tipped-in to grey matt card which are likewise tipped-in to the parchment. Embossed Art Nouveau design & lettering to the front board depicts a grapevine."A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou." Headpieces adorn each page of the Fitzgerald text. Hanscom, one of the leading US women photographers of the era, used as her models Joaquin Miller, George Sterling & George James. Costumes by Orlof Orlow, who also consulted on Persian symbolism. Bound in the original gilt embossed cloth with top edge gilt. a fine copy, interior is very fine. and complete. 1.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No DJ as Issued. Wilie Pogany Ilustrador. 1st Edition Thus. Liberty and Co, London & Paris, 1912. Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Colour Plates By Willy Pogany (illustrator). (illustrator). First Thus. LONDON & PARIS : 1912 Original stiff wrappers pictorial illustrated by Willy Pogany, famed illustration artist. With . Light grey thick paper stock. Illustrated with eight colour plates by Willy Pogany {tipped-in}. Text in red with medium brown/gold ornate decorative Persian-style pages and borders throughout. Yellow silk-sewn. A couple of page corners creased. Tight, bright and clean. No owner name or internal markings. No foxing. VERY GOOD INDEED. 32pp. A scarce ephemeral item; no pages written-in. Vilmos Andreas Pogany (1882-1955) was born in Szeged, Austria-Hungary. Died Manhattan, New York City. Was an Art Nouveau painter and illustrator. Original silk ties in place, one tiny chip else very fine copy. Rare thus.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Fine in the Original 1/2 white buckram and grey gilt Holland boards, uncut edges, printed letter press on hand made laid paper and signed on the frontis by the Poet Thompson, with the inscription Faithfully yours. Eben Francis Thompson. and who was also the author of the Hound of Heaven A famous poet and this being a fine copy of this remarkable presentation of Omar Khayham's 12th century masterpiece of Persia. The Rubaiyat. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Gilbert James Ilustrador. 1st Edition Thus. The Rubaiyat. tall 4to. in the original gilt pictorial cloth with the top edge gilt and others uncut. with color plates by Gilbert James. Edited with notes by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, Lecturer in Persian at the University of Cambridge. London AC Black 1909. 16 color plates by James fine. remnants of the rare original dust jacket laid in. Nance armorial book plate. dj is complete lacking only some spine portions. and one former owner's signature else fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Mabel Hardley-Wilmot Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 4to. First Edition thus. Features 38 photogravures by the photographer Mabel Hardley Wilmot of exotic locales of the Orient and Middle East apropos to Omar's poetry rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald in a 4to beautiful cream buckram gilt decorative binding with tissue guards to protect these beautiful and invocative plates of Araby. top edge gilt, the others are uncut and natural, a beautiful copy.