Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam gypsies previous owner's name

previous owner's name

a city-sponsored competition

Edges of text block darkened and untrimmed

Original black cloth with the unclipped dust-jacket

Mild foxing to endpapers and a small mark to top right corner of the front board

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam gypsies previous owner's nameLondon: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. First Dulac trade edition. Quarto. Original cream coloured cloth, spine and front cover elaborately decorated in gilt design with gilt titles and publisher's mark to the spine. Patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, behind captioned tissue guards, by Edmund Dulac. Patches of light foxing to the half title page. A Fine copy. First translated by Fitzgerald in 1859 from