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Lot 216
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$600 -
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$750
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Lot Description
[RUBAIYAT]. FITZGERALD, Edward, translator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London and Philadelphia: Siegle, Hill & Co., David McKay, 1911.
4to. Color plates and illuminated initials heightened in gold. (Dampstain to outer margin of the first few leaves.) Original vellum elaborately gilt-decorated, top edge gilt, others uncut (covers slightly bowed, some light soiling.)
LIMITED EDITION, number 247 of 550 copies signed by the publisher, reproducing a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe.