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