Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: vg-. Edmund Dulac (illustrator). 11" tall; unpaginated; natural cloth over boards with heavy gilt decoration & lettering; gilt pattern on white endpage; full-page color plates; gilt decoration around text & at head of quatrains; clear tape top & bottom of spine of dust jacket, which is in new clear protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).
Published by Folio Society, 1960
Seller: Borderland Books, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, CONWY, United Kingdom
US$ 33.21
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Attractive small (c 11.75cm x 16cm) 1960 4th Folio Society printing hardback in original gold box, very attractively bound in red brocade decorated with a recurring motif in silver and gold thread. In fine condition, book very bright, tight and clean, box showing signs of wear on edges and corners. Text is the 1859 first version of Edward Fitzgerald drawn from the original Persian, with a foreword and notes. Beautifully illustrated with reproductions of 4 miniatures from a manuscript dated 911AH, in rich pigments lavishly bordered with turquoise and gilt decoration.
Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland ME, 1897
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: good+. Charles M. Jenckes, decorations (illustrator). 4th ed. on Van Gelder laid paper consists of 925 copies; 7" tall x 3.75"; 126pp including bibliography; off-white buckram is soiled; paper overhangs boards on fore edges; uncut fore edge; prev. owner's name dated 1897 on first page. Hardcover.