拍品 115
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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... Illuminated by Ross Turner. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, [n.d. but 1902]. 4 (264 x 204mm). Printed, rectos only, on vellum. Original illuminated initials and decorations in inks, bodycolour and gold by Ross Turner. Original dark-blue morocco gilt, upper cover blocked with title in arabic script, wide turn-ins, light blue morocco paste-downs tooled with semi-abstract design, cream watered silk free-endleaves, g.e., by the Boston Bookbinding Co. (upper joint slightly split). Provenance: ?J. P. Morgan (inserted bookseller's note); Francis Kettaneh (booklabel).
OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... Illuminated by Ross Turner. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, [n.d. but 1902]. 4 (264 x 204mm). Printed, rectos only, on vellum. Original illuminated initials and decorations in inks, bodycolour and gold by Ross Turner. Original dark-blue morocco gilt, upper cover blocked with title in arabic script, wide turn-ins, light blue morocco paste-downs tooled with semi-abstract design, cream watered silk free-endleaves, g.e., by the Boston Bookbinding Co. (upper joint slightly split). Provenance: ?J. P. Morgan (inserted bookseller's note); Francis Kettaneh (booklabel).

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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... Illuminated by Ross Turner. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, [n.d. but 1902]. 4 (264 x 204mm). Printed, rectos only, on vellum. Original illuminated initials and decorations in inks, bodycolour and gold by Ross Turner. Original dark-blue morocco gilt, upper cover blocked with title in arabic script, wide turn-ins, light blue morocco paste-downs tooled with semi-abstract design, cream watered silk free-endleaves, g.e., by the Boston Bookbinding Co. (upper joint slightly split). Provenance: ?J. P. Morgan (inserted bookseller's note); Francis Kettaneh (booklabel).

ONE OF 8 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM. Ross Turner had been employed by the New York publisher George Sproul to work on his edition of the previous before (see previous lot). Potter 251.