[VEDDER, Elihu (1836-1923), illustrator]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayy?m The Astromomer-Poet of Persia? Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. Small 4to. French folded pages. 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 in the scarce publisher's dust jacket (some rubbing to cloth binding, the first few leaves with minor worm damage; jacket spine toned, torn, and chipped, some toning, edgewear, chipping, and a few tears to jacket panels). Very good. FIRST TRADE EDITION IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET. From the Collection of Louis A. Irmo. Measurements: 9 x 7 x 1".