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Lot 393

Rub?y?t of Omar Khayy?m.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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[Fine Binding] Fitzgerald, Edward, translator. Rub?y?t of Omar Khayy?m. [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [ca. 1919?]. Finely bound in full polished blue calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, front cover titled in gilt with a central ornament tooled in gilt, raised bands, compartments with a star and crescent tool framed in gilt filets and cornerpieces, morocco spine label titled in gilt, turn-ins with gilt rules, decorative endpapers, a.e.g. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in colored plates with printed tissue guards including the frontispiece by Edmund Dulac. 8vo. Spine sunned with slight rubbing, few faint scuffs to covers; contents clean and bright.