RIVIERE & SON, binders. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat...Presented by Willy Pogany. London: Harrap, n.d. 8vo, 210 x 146 x 17mm. (8 5/16 x 5 3/4 x 11/16in.), a pictorial inlaid binding, maroon levant morocco gilt, covers with a border of gilt dots around a paired double gilt fillet border with gilt lettered quotation, each cover with a broad inner border of vine and grape decoration in onlaid green, brown and purple morocco, upper cover with large oval vari-colored leather onlay representing Eve and the serpent in Eden with lots of fruit, lower cover with the oval medallion of the cover leather inset with a fawn and blind-tooled morocco inlay of the serpent entwined around a large gilt chalice; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a gilt panel with serpent and chalice in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in, cloth slipcase. Edward Fitzgerald's translation, 16 color illustrations.

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RIVIERE & SON, binders. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat...Presented by Willy Pogany. London: Harrap, n.d. 8vo, 210 x 146 x 17mm. (8 5/16 x 5 3/4 x 11/16in.), a pictorial inlaid binding, maroon levant morocco gilt, covers with a border of gilt dots around a paired double gilt fillet border with gilt lettered quotation, each cover with a broad inner border of vine and grape decoration in onlaid green, brown and purple morocco, upper cover with large oval vari-colored leather onlay representing Eve and the serpent in Eden with lots of fruit, lower cover with the oval medallion of the cover leather inset with a fawn and blind-tooled morocco inlay of the serpent entwined around a large gilt chalice; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a gilt panel with serpent and chalice in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by the binders on upper turn-in, cloth slipcase. Edward Fitzgerald's translation, 16 color illustrations.