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London: Richards Press, St. James' Sq., [ Chiswick Press ], 1945. Pocket Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. LONDON : 1945. [The text of the first, second & fifth editions, with the textual variants from the third & fourth and fifth (final) editions.]. Hardback. Original dark-red full dark-red leather. Gilt lettered spine and cover. Blind-stamped decorative cover. Top-edge gilt. Ribbon-marker. A fine binding. No owner name; a handful of marginal marks. Tight, bright and clean. FINE. 94, (i) pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** 12mo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

London : MACMILLAN & CO., Golden Treasury Series, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. A blue hardcover that has no markings and bindings are sound. Rendered into English verse. 16mo. pp. 112.Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet. He wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music.

Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked, illustrated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Boards dust-toned. Some foxing to spine cover. Loosening pages. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 35 p., [4] col. plates : col. illus. on end papers ; 15 cm. Subjects; FitzGerald, Edward. The Rubaiyat. Omar Khayyam. Persian literature. Persian literature in English.

London: Anthony Treherne & Co., Ltd., 12 York Buildings, Adelphi ; New York: H. B. Chaflin Co., MDCCCCV. [ 1905 ] .. Scarce miniature book in a very good full leather binding. [4pp.]/pp.LXXV /[1p.] . 2.75" x 2.0" x 0.3". Fifth Edition. Polished tree calf. Spine with dulled gilt titles and rubbed hinges. All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Pink mottled endpapers. Half-title: "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the astronomer poet of Persia done into English by Edward FitzGerald." Clean text throughout, with original yelow silk marker ribbon. Colophon to last page:"...Printed by Neill & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh..." VG .

London: George C. Harrap and Co., 1934. [Fairy tales] FIRST THUS, fourth rendering in English by Fitzgerald. Octavo (21 x 15cm), unpaginated. With eight colour plates by Pogany, including a frontispiece, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth with gilt motif to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Fly-leaf cancelled. Toning to rear endpaper, light toning to edges of textblock, some very light marking to cloth. Dust-jacket sunned, with wear to edges, open tear at spine 3cm, archival tape applied to entire length of jacket upper joint. Very good. 'Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, / Before we too into Dust descend.' Polymath poet, philosopher, and scientist, Khayyam was one of the greatest minds of the Islamic Golden Age, whose enduring presence in the Anglophone world was cemented by the translations of FitzGerald.

London: MacMillan & Co, 1909. Golden Treasury 15th Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked aniline half calf over cloth backed boards. Spine-compartment tooling. Remains an uncommonly well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. All-Edges-Gilt. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 111 pages; Physical desc.: 111 p ; 16 cm. Subject: Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131. Series: Golden Treasury Series.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Some toning and spotting to endpapers. A little light toning and a few minor marks throughout. Light wear to cloth. Near fine. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. The French artist Dulac, along with contemporaries Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Warwick Goble was a highly regarded book illustrator, noted for his fantasy drawing, prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His other works include The Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Andersen's Fairy Tales, and works by Shakespeare, Bronte, Edgar Allan… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with trivial marks to cloth; jacket very good with a few chips to spine tips. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. The French artist Dulac, along with contemporaries Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Warwick Goble was a highly regarded book illustrator, noted for his fantasy drawing, prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). His other works include The Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Andersen's Fairy Tales, and works by Shakespeare,… Read More

London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, a Presentation Copy, one of 750 copies SIGNED in pencil to the frontispiece by Willy Pogany, numbered 'Artist'. Small Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.175 [1]. With twelve mounted colour plates including a frontispiece, an original etching signed in pencil by Pogany following the frontispiece, and additional vignette illustrations laid down. A superb edition printed on fine handmade paper. With a note-card in black ink loose to preliminaries reading: 'This book was given to | my father Edwin A. Neugass | by his friend Willy Pogany.' Publisher's blue-green full morocco with elaborate gilt titles to spine and on-laid circular floral motif to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Presented in a matching cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine and fleece lining. An exceptional copy showing no sunning to spine. Light to moderate spotting throughout. Some bumping to corners and a touch of light general wear to binding,… Read More