[RUBAIYAT]. VEDDER, Elihu (illustrator). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1884. Folio. Ornamental title page, 56 full-page illustrations by Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process, printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass (moderate spotting in the margins throughout). Grapevine endpapers designed by Vedder. Original brown flat-weave brown cloth over beveled boards, gilt-decorated, top edge gilt (covers rubbed with some fraying along hinges and edges, but solid and square. FIRST TRADE EDITION.