Large 8vo. (Closed tear and very light spotting to title page.) Original brown cloth gilt, top edge gilt (dampstaining along lower portion on both sides, rubbing, offsetting to front free endpaper). Provenance: Elihu Vedder (his bookplate).

VEDDER'S PERSONAL COPY OF HIS BEST-KNOWN WORK WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND SIGNATURE.

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. Upon receiving the commission to illustrate Houghton Mifflin's deluxe edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Elihu Vedder moved to Rome and spent eleven months creating illustrations strongly influenced by Greco-Roman art and Persian mythology. The deluxe edition numbered 100 copies and sold out within six days. It was reprinted in octavo for the first time in 1894. Today Vedder's illustrations are considered to be among the finest ever created for the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. THE ILLUSTRATOR'S OWN COPY.