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OMAR KHAYYAM (died circa 1123). Rubaiyat. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Boston, Mass. and London: Houghton Mifflin and Company and Bernard Quaritch, [1884].
2° (315 x 222mm). Frontispiece, and pictorial title, imprint leaf, dedication, fly-title, 47 text leaves with borders, and colophon, after Elihu Vedder. (Scattered light spotting.) Contemporary crushed red morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers elaborately gilt with a central design of a tree formed of leaf and berry tools between 2 columns formed of floral and foliate tools, surmounted by a pediment formed of large and small floral and foliate tools, the upper corners filled with designs composed of leaf and berry tools, within a broad border of leaf and berry tools, surrounded by gilt fillets and rolls, the spine titled in gilt and decorated with 2 columns composed of large and small leaf and berry tools, board edges roll-tooled in gilt, the turn ins decorated with a broad band of leaf and berry tools between fillets, green watered silk doublures and free endpapers, gilt edges (a few light scuff marks on the board edges and spine). Silk-lined, cloth-covered folding box. A FINELY-BOUND COPY.
2° (315 x 222mm). Frontispiece, and pictorial title, imprint leaf, dedication, fly-title, 47 text leaves with borders, and colophon, after Elihu Vedder. (Scattered light spotting.) Contemporary crushed red morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers elaborately gilt with a central design of a tree formed of leaf and berry tools between 2 columns formed of floral and foliate tools, surmounted by a pediment formed of large and small floral and foliate tools, the upper corners filled with designs composed of leaf and berry tools, within a broad border of leaf and berry tools, surrounded by gilt fillets and rolls, the spine titled in gilt and decorated with 2 columns composed of large and small leaf and berry tools, board edges roll-tooled in gilt, the turn ins decorated with a broad band of leaf and berry tools between fillets, green watered silk doublures and free endpapers, gilt edges (a few light scuff marks on the board edges and spine). Silk-lined, cloth-covered folding box. A FINELY-BOUND COPY.
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