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Published by Beernard Quaritch London 1859 but pre 1929, 1929
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Softback. Square 8vo. xiii + (1) + 21 + (3 )pp including eps. Cream soft card covers, black lettering + double fine black lines around edges with cartouche at corners on front. No date but frontis text states "over 200 editions" (so far published ). Apparently the Ambrose Potter 1929 bibliography mentions over 300 editions, so presumably this facsimile predates that. Covers : chips to spine, very slight chip front corner, 1cm closed tear, , browned around edges else very clean. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy with chips to spine. VG.
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.