Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (George Harrap & Co. Ltd, circa 1920s) illustrations by Willy Pogany
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogány
George Harrap & Co. Ltd, [No Date] circa 1920s*
A lovely little pocket-sized ‘Rubaiyat’ with four tipped-in colour plates.
Hardback – publisher’s red cloth with title to spine and decoration to front board, in a price-clipped dustwrapper with repeated design. 95pp including line drawings/decoration plus four colour plates. Size: 5 x 3.5 inches approx. (128mm x 89mm).
Dustwrapper lightly rubbed and worn; a touch dusty/grubby; neatly clipped to all corners; slightly short but does appear original, ie. no signs of being trimmed. Cloth lightly worn to extremities otherwise clean and bright. Light foxing/spotting to endpapers.
Overall, a nicely preserved copy – lovely.
£20.00
*Not dated but another copy seen with a dated owner’s inscription of 1921.
ref. A Book of Verse by Garry Garrard (Sutton Publishing, 2007)
