Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Presented by Willy Pogany

  • London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1909
By Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Willy Pogany [illus.]
London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1909. Very Good. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1909. Early Pogany-illustrated Edition. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. 24 mounted color plates. Attractively bound in publisher's red full morocco; gilt and blank tooling to spine and upper board; top edge gilt; illustrated endpapers. Light wear to edges and joints; slightly bowed towards fore-edge. Binding sound. Aside from some bookseller scribbles and a contemporary gift inscription to preliminaries, interior unmarked. A Very Good copy of Fitzgerald's translation of the Persian polymath's classic collection of quatrains, here showcasing the Hungarian illustrator's lovely illustrations.

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