Details
[BAYNTUN, binders. GILBERT JAMES, illustrator]. OMAR KHAYYAM [EDWARD FITZGERALD, translator]. The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym... With Twelve Hand-colored Plates after Drawings by Gilbert James. London: George Routledge, New York, E.P. Dutton, n.d. 8vo, red morocco, elaborately gilt, covers with double gilt fillets, upper cover with two broad border panels decorated with climbing vine in onlaid green and purple morocco on a ground of gold, gilt-lettered panels at head and foot, large central panel decorated with a picture of a standing female with flowers executed in morocco onlays in five colors, lower cover with gilt panel, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one compartment, others with vine decorated in similar style as cover, minor rubbing to head of spine; silk doublures and silk linings; cloth slipcase.
Provenance
Albert Henry Wiggin; Selden, bookplates.