The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., n.d. (ca. early 1900s). Illuatrated with thirty-eight pictures, from photographs by Mabel Eardley-Wilmot. 4to. 8-1/16" x 10-3/16." Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold black and dark green. Unpaginated. Deckled fore-edge. Top edge gilt. Endpapers decorated with photos of grapes printed in green ink. One small abrasion on free front endpaper. Otherwise in fine condition. Item #460
A lovely production of this classic poem. Each verse is accompanied by a tipped-in photograph of desert life in the middle east with people and palaces and camels and a cobra and a potter's shop. Each verse has a decorated initial printed in green ink.
Price: $185.00
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