Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Hodder and Stoughton, 1919) illustrated by Edmund Dulac Twenty Plates Red Cloth
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
Hodder and Stoughton, [November, 1919]*
The first Dulac illustrated ‘Rubáiyát’ was first published in 1909 as a signed and limited edition in a vellum binding, and a trade edition in a white buckram binding. This copy a later printing in red cloth with the same gilt design but with plain endpapers and the text borders in pale green, otherwise seemingly identical to the first edition.
Twenty tipped-in colour plates.
Hardback – publisher’s red cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine and front board. [162]pp including colour plates. 11.25 x 9 inches approx. (284mm x 223mm).
Cloth faded and marked especially to rear board; a dent showing to rear board; worn to corner tips, with wear and fraying to spine ends. Endpapers showing heavy foxing/offsetting; pages foxed/spotted throughout especially to half-title page; tissue guards with offsetting from facing plate border; page edges dusty, tanned and spotted.
Nonetheless, showing its age but remains a reasonably attractive copy.
£85.00
*ref. [21m] Ann Conolly Hughey, Edmund Dulac – His Book Illustrations: A Bibliography (Buttonwood Press, 1995).
