Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909)
Translated by Edmund Fitzgerald
First Edition Thus. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. White cloth covered boards with gilt titling and decoration. Twenty full colour illustrations by Dulac tipped in, all with tissue guard and caption on the tissue. Love poem attributed to 12th century Persian Omar Khayyam and rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald. This Dulac illustrated Hodder production was a great success upon publication.
Near Fine Condition, boards very slightly dulled. Offered together with the original box which has browned over the years but done its job proudly protecting the book. Overall a lovely copy of a most beautiful production.