Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Fitzgerald First Rene Bull Edition

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Fitzgerald First Rene Bull Edition 1913

Book Condition: Very Good - Bright gilt, binding slightly shaken but holding, tears to spine head and foot, frayed corners."Brentano's New York" small bookshop ticket to rear. No foxing. Plates brilliant.

Authors: E. Fitzgerald (Edward Fitzgerald, translator)

Cover Artist: Rene Bull

Edition: First edition

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Location: London

Date: 1913

Features: No date (1913). First Bull trade edition. Rene Bull (Illustrator). 10 color tipped-in full page plates, and 19 small color plates mounted headpices, other headpieces and decorations in blue. Original brown cloth, decorative gilt stamped spine and cover in gilt & blue. Printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd., Banbury. Unpaginated.

HCS6733-1

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