RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Astronomer poet of Persia. Rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald by ROBINSON. THOMAS HEATH, Illustrates. ; KHAYYAM, OMAR - 1907

Harrap and Co. London. 1929. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 12 full page colour plates and 22 line drawings throughout the text. Finely bound in Publishers delux leather binding of dark brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Front board with onlayed reproduction of one of the book's colour plates in gilt and six different coloured leathers. Green endpapers illustrated with white silhouettes. Top edge gilt. Neat previous owners name and address stamp to top of front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to the edges but overall a very good copy of this beautiful delux edition.

Tinsley Brothers. London. 1869. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo. (7.2 x 5 inches).iv,288; iv,292; iv,310, 2 (adverts)pp. All half titles present. Ex library with stamps to the verso of all 3 title pages. Some pages a bit rubbed and browned. Overall a very good copy, bound in recent half tan calf. Spines with raised bands, red titles labels, gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Not in Sadleir. Wolff 5966.

William Heinemann. London. 1910. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to. Illustrated throughout with forty fine full colour plates, each mounted onto thicker art paper and with a printed tissue guard cover. A very good copy in a fine leather binding of half dark blue morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled, lettered & decorated in gilt. Blue cloth on the boards. To edge gilt.

Macmillan and Co. London. 1903. EARLY THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Publishers original burgundy cloth with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Page edges untrimmed. Internally a fine bright and clean copy throughout. A little rubbing to the binding extremities and just a hint of fading to the spine but overall a very good, bright copy. Becoming increasingly difficult to find in collectable condition in the publishers cloth.

Hatchards, Piccadilly. London. 1879. Small 8vo. (4.8 x 3.6 inches). Contains scores of signatures in the dated sections, mostly members of the Huth family. Tipped in signatures of Queen Isabella II of Spain and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (the Mother of Queen Mary) and also four 19th century postage stamps from Hawaii. A very good copy in an attractive early leather binding. Finely bound by Riviere and Son in full dark blue morocco. Raised bands to spine. Compartments lettered in gilt. Gilt decorative roll to inner board edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. This is a fine, attractively bound copy.

Faber & Faber. London.,1933. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 5.7 inches). 38pp. Fine copy, finely bound in recent full dark green calf, flat spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt. :

J. M. Dent and co. London.,1904. FIRST COLOUR BROCK EDITION. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with colour title page and 24 full page colour plates. Finely bound in early twentieth century fine leather binding. Half green morocco with gilt ruled design and lettering to the spine. Marbled paper on boards. Decorative endpapers.Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy of this beautiful edition.:

Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co.. London. 1884. POCKET EDITION. Small 8vo. (6.3 x 4.1 inches). Finely printed, at the Chiswick Press, on hand made paper. Etched portrait frontis by S. H. W. Llewellyn. A very good, bright copy. Finely bound in early twentieth century leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the Los Angeles department store J. W. Robinson Company and with both companies names stamped to the inner front board. Full plum calf. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Gilt decorative border on both boards. Front board with the tile lettered in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Colour printed floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Previous owners bookplate to the front paste down endpaper. Some rubbing to the edges but overall a very good clean copy in a pretty leather binding which is housed in a floral paper (the same as the endpapers) covered slip-cace.

Macmillan and co. Ltd. London. 1904. REPRINT OF 1896 ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page mono plates by Hugh Thomson. A clean tidy copy bound, for Truslove and Hanson in London, in early half burgundy morocco, spine with a single raised band, dotted in gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. A small amount of wear to the extremities and some marks to the cloth boards but still overall a very good, attractive copy.

Macmillan & Co. Limited. London. 1906. Reprint of the 1904 Golden Treasury edition. 8vo. (6.4 x 4.2 inches). Engraved frontis illustration of Guinevere, from the marble by Thomas Woolmer, R.A. Finely bound in a contemporary full dark green morocco binding by Ramage of London. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments with gilt ruled lines, flower and star designs and lettering. Decorative flower and leaf designs to both boards, within a wavy line border which is surrounded by multiple stars, within a ruled line border, all in gilt. Elaborate gilt tooled stars, flowers and decorative roll borders to the inner boards with off-white moire silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Previous owners neat inscription, dated 1914, to the front blank free endpaper. Spine faded to an attractive tan colour and the front board to a lighter green but still a beautiful fine binding from the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey, and with his burgundy morocco leather and gilt book plate to the front… Read More