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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

Omar Khayyam

RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Edition limited to 250 copies SIGNED by Rene Bull (this no. 123). Fine copy with tiny dark spot on the spine and minimal tide marks on a few of the tissue guards not affecting plates ot pages. Edition limited to 250 copies SIGNED by Rene Bull (this no. 123). Unpaged. Illustrated by Rene Bull with 10 full-page tipped-in color plates, 19 smaller mounted color plates, the remaining text plates with pictorial designs and borders printed in blue, title page highlighted in gilt. 4to. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full purple crushed morocco with watered silk endpapers, a.e.g., the spine ornately gilt with titles and panel decorations, the upper cover features a large central gilt peacock design (6 1/2") in the style used on Zaehnsdorf's "Hafiz of Shiraz" (without the jewels) with elaborate frames of trailing vines, fancy dentelles. Potter no. 99.

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