[BULL, René (1872-1942), illustrator]. [FITZGERALD, Edward (1809-1883), translator]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. 4to. [2], 58, [1], 59-75 ff. Tipped-in color frontispiece; twenty-eight tipped-in color illustrations within decorative borders, including nine full-page plates; numerous textual illustrations in blue. Title-page printed in gold, blue, and black. Brown cloth ruled in gilt and stamped decoratively in blue and gilt on front board with gilt spine.
Condition
Corners lightly rubbed, slight fraying to tail of spine. Minor offsetting to gutter margin of ff. 7-8. Slight offsetting to tissue guards from plates. Fine.
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René Bull was a Dublin-born photographer and illustrator, and one of the artists of the Golden Age of Illustration (from the 1880s to 1920s). Other well-known titles he illustrated include Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.