Limited, Illustrated Rubaiyat

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám … With Illustrations by Stephen Gooden, A.R.A … [Edinburgh, Riverside Press, for] London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1940].

8vo, pp. 61, [3], with a frontispiece, four engraved plates and four engraved vignettes by Gooden; a fine copy in the original quarter green morocco and green cloth, green card slipcase, lettered direct and numbered.

£600

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US $812€694

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Limited illustrated edition, no. 75 of 125 copies signed by the illustrator. The chosen text is Fitzgerald’s first version; the introduction gives a brief history of its publication by Quaritch and its re-discovery in the ‘penny box’.

Coumans 63.