Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat, translated by Fitzgerald, Portland, 1919, limp vellum binding, printed on vellum

Estimate

150 - 200 GBP

Lot Details

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OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat, trans. Edward Fitzgerald. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher & Emilie B. Grigsby, 1919


NUMBER 7 OF 10 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM.

4to (226 x 189 mm). 20 leaves, unsigned. Printer's device in red on title-page.


binding: Limp vellum (230 x 192 mm) with fore-edge flaps, title lettered in gilt on flat spine, 2 pairs of yellow fabric ties.


provenance: Roderick Terry, Newport (1845-1933), bookplate to upper pastedown. acquisition: Purchased in 1962 in Newport.

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