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[POGANY, WILLY, illustrator]. OMAR KHAYYÁM [EDWARD FITZGERALD, translator]. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London, n.d. [c. 1920]. Illustrated by Pogany. 8vo, full red morocco, covers with gilt dot, rule and lettered border around a broad panel border design of a climbing vine with bunches of grapes and leaves executed in onlaid leathers of purple, green and brown with gilt tooling, this border set around a central large oval panel of double gilt line, the upper cover panel decorated with a full standing nude figure of Eve in the Garden of Eden with the serpent on the Tree of Knowledge in the background in vari-colored onlaid morocco, the lower cover panel decorated with a large gilt chalice entwined by a dun-colored and black painted serpent; spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt snake a chalice device in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by RIVIERE & SON; bookplate; cloth folding case.