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Lot 50
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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Lot Description
DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953), illustrator. -- FITZGERALD, Edward (1809-1883), translator. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909].
4to. Title-page prints on Japan vellum, 20 color-printed plates tipped to Japan vellum mounts with gold-printed borders; lettered tissue guards. (Some minor spotting primarily to text leaves.) Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, silk ribbon ties (covers slightly bowed, some minor soiling, endpapers browning).
LIMITED EDITION, number 176 of 200 copies printed for distribution in the United States, with text from Fitzgerald’s second translated edition.