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Lot 37
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$563
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Lot Description
[MONASTERY HILL BINDING -- ZUFFANT, Joseph, binder] -- [RUBAIYAT]. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald, translator. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1913].
8vo. Numerous illustrations after René Bull mounted within decorative borders printed in colors; numerous color-printed illustrations. Red levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest with central gilt arabesque, decorative paper pastedowns and endpapers, edges gilt, corners rounded, BY JOSEPH ZUFFANT FOR THE MONASTERY HILL BINDERY (spine slightly sunned, a few minor scuffs to lower cover).
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery