The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

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The text of this famous poetic tale "is reprinted from Fitzgerald's translation published" in 1859. What sets this edition apart are the full-colour illustrations and elaborate page decorations supplied by Anglo-Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). All 15 plates are present, each mounted on its own leaf of heavy card-stock. Unpaginated. Endpapers lightly glue marked or foxed. Pale sage green boards with gilt lettering to spine and dark brown design on front board. Two page edges untrimmed. No dust jacket

180 GBP