Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton [124]p, with twenty colour illustrations. Original full vellum, decorated in gilt to spine and upper cover, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, decorative endpapers. Lacks tie, spine lightly rubbed and slightly faded, internally quite bright and clean. With twenty tissue guarded full page illustrations by Dulac as called for. Limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Dulac to the limitation leaf, this one being number two hundred and thirty. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Full Vellum. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Dulac, Edmund. 4to. Limited Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001349
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.)
- Illustrator
- Dulac, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Dulac, Signed, Limited Edition
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
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- Vellum
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...