Price: $250.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued
Original publisher's white boards, heavily embossed in green and gilt, gilt titles and decoration on spine. Illustrated with color frontispiece, engraved half-title, and head and tail-pieces by Ella Hallward, and full photographic reproduction of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a transcript in modern Persian characters. This second edition has been "carefully revised and considerably enlarged." "A landmark in the history of the Rubaiyat." [Mosher 141,VI,2][Rittenhouse 243]. Rare. . Spine badly chipped, with loss at head and heel, minor foxing on preliminary pages, otherwise unmarked, tight and square. GOOD. . Color and B&W Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xlii, 320 pp
Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford, Translated and Edited by Edward Heron Allen
Illustrator: Illustrated by Ella Hallward
Categories: Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books, Poetry,
Edition: Second Edition. First Printing
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company, Inc.: 1898
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good with No dust jacket as issued
Item: 1.00 lbs
Seller ID: 1938
Keywords: Poetry; Rubaiyats; Rubaiyat; Rare Books; Illustrated Books; Persian;