The Rubaiyat Of Mirza-Mem'n

Chicago: Henry Olendorf Shepard, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter navy spine and white cloth, front cover decorated in gilt floral motif. Teg. Very good. Unpaginated. 23.5 x 19.5 cm. 12 half-tone reproductions of drawings by H.O Shepard with lettered tissue guards. Text framed by decorative mauve borders. Some stanzas "more or less paraphrased from McCarthy's elegant prose translation of the Rubaiyat..." Slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot, interior sharp and bright.