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Published by Published by L. C. Page and Company, Boston | Fifth Edition . 1919., 1919
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Blanche MacManus illustrated hard back binding in publisher's original decorated turquoise cloth covers, burgundy title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Red and green printed title page. Rubáiyát over 159 pages carrying the 101 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with 12 full-page single-sided colour illustrations on coated art paper by Blanche MacManus, including tissue frontispiece. Two lengthy ink messages dated 1921 and 1944 to the front end sheet, page 158 with circular piece of paper missing to the fore edge when cut, not affecting any text, stains and marks to the covers. These illustrations are completely different to those which appear in the trade edition published by The De La More Press during the 1920's. Extremely rare edition of Rubáiyát. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Published by Published by L. C. Page and Company Boston | Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London First Edition Thus . 1898., 1898
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Uniform matching first edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original white buckram covers, elaborate gilt tools and title lettering to the spine and to the front and rear covers, top edges gilt. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Red and black printed titles, pp clxxx, 1-203; vi, [204] - 655. 17 captioned tissue-guarded monochrome plates. Fine condition books, in Very Good red silk dust wrappers with minor rubbing to the spine tips. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Published by Published by Privately Printed by the Rosemary Press First Edition . 1921., 1921
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter white vellum over blue paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, blue coated end papers, fore edge untrimmed. Quarto. 9¼'' x 8¼''. 50 copies, bound in blue paper, signed by the club officers, for the use of the members of the Omar Khayyám club of America and numbered 1 to 50 + 225 copies, numbered 1R to 225R, reserved for the Rosemary Press, of which 125 copies are for distribution to libraries, this copy is unnumbered. Contains orange paper cover insert, white paper insert, frontispiece, title page and Colophon (x), 105 single-sided pages with 36 plates, portraits, facsimiles, 1 tissue-guarded colour plate, orange paper insert. Rubbing to the corners and edges and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.