![OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... Illuminated by Ross Turner. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. [New York:] George D. Sproul, 1901. 4 (259 x 205mm). Printed, rectos only, on vellum. Original illuminated initials and decorations in inks, bodycolour and gold by Ross Turner. Original green morocco gilt by the Trautz-Bauzonnet bindery, covers with wide border of arabesque scrolls enclosing a large inset panel of white leather, with onlays of light green and rose-red morocco at the centre, these onlays tooled in gilt to form three bunched flower-heads, wide turn-ins, similar decoration to the upper covers but with reduced versions of the bunched flower-heads at each corner, the central white leather panel with central gilt circle with painted rose (at the front) and gentian (at the back), vellum endleaves, g.e.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06098_0114_000(113909).jpg?w=1)
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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... Illuminated by Ross Turner. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. [New York:] George D. Sproul, 1901. 4 (259 x 205mm). Printed, rectos only, on vellum. Original illuminated initials and decorations in inks, bodycolour and gold by Ross Turner. Original green morocco gilt by the Trautz-Bauzonnet bindery, covers with wide border of arabesque scrolls enclosing a large inset panel of white leather, with onlays of light green and rose-red morocco at the centre, these onlays tooled in gilt to form three bunched flower-heads, wide turn-ins, similar decoration to the upper covers but with reduced versions of the bunched flower-heads at each corner, the central white leather panel with central gilt circle with painted rose (at the front) and gentian (at the back), vellum endleaves, g.e.
ONE OF A LIMITED EDITION ON VELLUM, ILLUMINATED BY ROSS TURNER. The New York publisher George Sproul apparently employed a number of different illuminators to work on various copies of the present edition for the Saint Dunstan Edition of 1901. 22 copies of the Saint Dunstan Edition were sold: the present copy is probably one of the unsold copies, re-packaged with the Saint Dunstan limitation leaf removed by the publisher. Cf. Potter 249.
ONE OF A LIMITED EDITION ON VELLUM, ILLUMINATED BY ROSS TURNER. The New York publisher George Sproul apparently employed a number of different illuminators to work on various copies of the present edition for the Saint Dunstan Edition of 1901. 22 copies of the Saint Dunstan Edition were sold: the present copy is probably one of the unsold copies, re-packaged with the Saint Dunstan limitation leaf removed by the publisher. Cf. Potter 249.