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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: White cloth cover with gilt decoration shows minor wear and soiling, tanning. Gift inscription in the prelims. Pages lightly tanned, color illustrated plates.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: Original cream cloth, 4to, with gilt decorations of peacocks and elephants. Spine faded. One small nick in cloth at head of spine, and some fraying at base of spine. 61pp, printed on rectos only, with decorative borders. 20 tipped-in illustrations, with captioned tissue guards, decorative endpapers. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include GENERAL - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----
Seller: AMBRA BOOKS (Aitchison & Cornish), Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large, beautiful hardcover measures 9 x 11, complete with 20 tipped-in color plates - each plate has tissue guard. Gilt on spine and front board; thick, heavy gauge pages. For its age, binding is pretty strong and secure. Condition: this is an older book with some general rubbing to the front board and along spine. Light fraying at top spine, corner tips. There is a gift inscription on illustrated endpaper. Then some average age-toning to the pages, occasional foxing. The pages are quite nice, but there is probably some incidental wear from reference that I did not see. The plates are stunning! Vivid and bright. Very nice.
Seller: Snowden's Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 20 tipped-in colour plates; no pagination, 290 x 210mm; white cloth gilt (cloth marked, corner crease to 1 plate and slight loss to abrasion on 1 plate); (with PICTURE)
Seller: BOOKS & THINGS, STROUD, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover 1st trade issue in attractive gilt-stamped decorated white buckram boards printed by Constable, authorization notice present to copyright page ("Printed from the Second Edition by kind permission of Messrs MacMillan and Co Ltd") referring to the original Fitzgerald issue (not the Dulac illustrated edfition), boards show wear & soil with tear to cloth at spine tail/fold, slight fraying to ends & corners, added illustrations tacked to half-title/preliminary page, contents & 20 full-page tipped-in plates with captioned guards present & perfect, hinges sound & binding solid, an overall Very Good copy; 4to; unpaginated, illus; decorated endpapers
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Faded gilt titles on burgundy cloth, over marbleized paper-covered boards. 197pp. Hinge starting at title page. Size: Wide Thick Large Octavo
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$104.14 + shipping
Description: Original gilt decorated cloth. Binding a bit worn/chafed, text pages a bit foxed, a good copy of this famous illustrated edition. The first (quarto) edition, not one of the later editions in smaller formats. Please see description or ask for photos.
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Price: US$109.63 + shipping
Description: In 8 (cm 16 x 22,5), pp. (118) con 16 illustrazioni fuori testo. Legatura editoriale in piena tela con fregi a secco ai piatti e stemma in oro al piatto anteriore, sovraccoperta con gora al dorsoÂe qualche mancanza. Edizione non datata, forse stampata nel 1909, con le traduzione in versi in inglese del RubaiyatÂdi Omar Khayyam e le illustrazioni di Edmund Dulac. Testo stampato al solo recto delle pagine entro cornice tipografica. ITA
Seller: Coenobium Libreria antiquaria, Asti, Italy
FITZGERALD Edward, DULAC Edmund. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1909, 1909.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Description: 1st edn trade. 4to (11¼ x 9 ins). Original gilt decorated white buckram cloth (upper board a little bowed with small marks, and light wear at head of spine - otherwise bright VG). Unpaginated, illus with 20 full page tipped-in coloured plates by Dulac with tissue guards; decorated endpapers (front inner hinge a little pulled at gutter facing half title; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Edward Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Ref.G3 ) Reprinted from the 2nd Ed. with permission from Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Cream colour cloth boards with gilt design illustration and titles. Slight darkening, yellowing around edges and rear board. Gilt is very good and bright. Slightly greyed top and foredge. Inscription 'For Auld Lang Syne 15/11/10' to centre ffep. Contents otherwise very good and generally unmarked. Very good copy for age with next to no wear or damage. Comes in original box which is darkened and worn at edges with previous owner's inscription to front top left corner and sellotaped corner at lower left.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Description: Lg. 4to. (11 x 8.5 ins.) Hardback. Bound in original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and extensive gilt illustrated decoration to front board. In good condition. Corners bumped with rubbing to edges, faint line mark on rear board. Spine a little faded and small split at top end. Neatly small rubbed out inscription to front endpaper, some light foxing spots else inside pages clean and tight throughout. Unpaginated. 20 mounted colour plates, each surrounded by elaborate border. Each text page is surrounded by thin decorative border.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder & Stoughton n.d. ( 1909), 1909.
Price: US$145.57 + shipping
Description: Original cream coloured cloth boards decorated in gilt. Twenty tipped-in Dulac colour plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards, decorated page borders, decorated endpapers. N.d, (1909) Copyright notice refers to a reprint from the second Macmillan edition, i.e. the Fitzgerald edition not this illustrated one. Boards rubbed with some loss to front board, markings to rear board, small frayed area rear edge of foot of spine and corners. Internally clean and in very good condition. Beautifully illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat by the French-born British illustrator, Edmund Dulac.
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade Edition. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Tissue guards intact. Bound in full cream buckram with gilt titles and front board illustration. Very Good plus, with a slight lean, lightly soiled and foxed boards, and a bookplate and gift inscription on the front pastedown and first leaf.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.92 + shipping
Description: Tall hardback, approx 11 x 9 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front with elaborate gilt decoration to front. Decorative pattterned endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth rubbed on edges with some chips to top edges and corners. Partial crack to cloth at bottom rear spine corner. Some minor rubbing marks to boards. Endpapers clean, no previous owners inscriptions. Moderate foxing to halfitle page, main title page is clean and bright. Some mild foxing to inside pages throughout. Colour plates and tissue guards all clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Unpaginated, (approx 55pp. 110 Quatrains.) Each page has two verses and a decorative border. Illustrated with 20 colour plates tipped-in on bordered mounts, all with titled tissue guards. Undated but small print says ?printed from the second edition of Messrs. Macmillan and Co.? Beautifully illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Khayyam, Omar & Fitzgerald, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$174.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. The perfect showcase for Dulac's genius in depicting eastern fantasy with 20 magnificent tipped-in colour plates. Cream buckram stamped in rich gilt. Front cover has peacock design above and elephants below a central wreath. Spine has gilt titles and vignette of a flower urn. Peacock feather design on endpapers. Brown decorative border to each page. 11.25 x 8.75". Unpaginated. Spine is very browned, with a couple of chips/nicks to top and tail. Bumping to corners. A few knocks to cover edges. Marks to covers. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Foxing to various degrees throughout the book. Plates are still very good! Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Khayyam, Omar & Fitzgerald, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$174.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1909. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. The perfect showcase for Dulac's genius in depicting eastern fantasy with 20 magnificent tipped-in colour plates. Cream buckram stamped in rich gilt. Front cover has peacock design above and elephants below a central wreath. Spine has gilt titles and vignette of a flower urn. Peacock feather design on endpapers. Brown decorative border to each page. 11.25 x 8.75". Unpaginated. Spine and covers are unevenly browned with grubby marks. Chips to corners; grubby marks to covers. Front joint is a bit cracked. Several inscriptions in ink to verso of front endpaper. Tissue-guard to frontis has small tear to top. Foxing throughout. One plate has corner crease. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautiful large white illustrated edition, the first thus of this classic oriental verse. Measures 11.25 in x 9 in x 1.5 in. Printed from the second edition by permission from Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Twenty stunning tipped-in full colour plates, protected by tissue-guard pages, by one of the great artists of the Edwardian era, Edmund Dulac. Very bright, clean pages throughout. Very good overall condition with minuscule rubbing at extremities. Neat ink name and date (1910) to peacock feather-patterned front green endpaper. Book is protected in new clear film mylar which gives a lovely fresh look. Would make a lovely gift. Heavy item and extra postage will be advised at the time of purchase.
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto; VG- hardcover; tan spine with gilt text; comes in protective plastic jacket; cover has age toning, rubbing, ripping of fabric along front hinge, spine slightly cocked; textblock has age toning, edgewear, some sporadic spotting, first section of text is loose but still fully attached, contains 20 color plates; FLP Collection. See all six images for details Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restriction(s). Contact seller if you have any questions. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, on bookcase with Ephemera section. 1301301. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: N.d., [1909]. Quarto. Unpaginated; 61 leaves printed recto only with pale green foliate border to text. 20 colour plates by Dulac tipped-in to decorative mounts, each with captioned tissue guard. Publishers' maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and elaborate elephants and peacocks design in gilt to upper board. Repairs to spine head and tail; cover cloth soiled particularly to spine with minor wear to corners. Later endpapers. Half-title and page edges toned; scattered light foxing. Annotation in pencil to final stanza (correcting the translation). "Printed from the Second Edition by Kind Permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co" to verso title page. This edition has the full complement of 20 exquisite plates by Dulac (some later editions having only 12). A very good copy.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$197.33 + shipping
Description: Goldgeprägter Leineneinband, 8°, VIII, 189 S., 12 farbige, montiert Tafeln, mit Seidenhemdchen; -Rücken stärker geblichen, Papier minimal stockfleckig/ cloth, gilt, 8vo, VIII, 189 pp., 12 coloured, mounted illustrations, tissue guard; -spine sunned, paper slightly foxed.
Seller: Antiquariat Atlas, Einzelunternehmen, Hamburg, Germany
Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. With 20 color tipped-in plates by Edmund Dulac. All plates present and protected by tissue guards. Gilt decorated cover. Some wrinkling to the cloth cover and loss to the edges of the final four pages of the volume and the endpaper. The rear free endpaper has come unglued from the last printed page. Otherwise a very good copy of this deluxe printing.
Seller: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No date stated (circa 1909) Printed from the second edition. Beige buckram, gilt titles and decoration (elephants and peacocks). 20 tipped-in color plates. Boards lightly worn and soiled, inside in excellent condition.
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, Edward, trans.. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1909], 1909.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Printed from the second edition by kind permission of of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Coloured Plates and Borders printed by Henry Stone & Son Ltd., Banbury. 280 x 220mm, light cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered & decorated in gilt with peacock & elephant design, pp.162, including coloured frontispiece & 19 other full-page tipped-in coloured plates with captioned guards, patterned endpapers. Spine a little darkened, slightly split at edges & rubbed at ends, internally fresh. Decorously Bacchic bookplate (designed by Rex Whistler) of Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Edwardian socialite, actress, author, & leading member of 'The Coterie'. This book weighs 1.75 kg.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: 4to, ff. [61] + frontispiece and 19 mounted colour plates with printed tissue guards. Brown foliate borders throughout. Original cream cloth, front board blocked and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. A little light foxing. Boards lightly soiled. An attractively-presented edition of Fitzgerald?s free rendering of some 11th-century Persian quatrains, illustrated by Edmond Dulac (1882-1953).
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dulac, Edmund. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$281.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy with the scarce original dust jacket. No Date. (1909). Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth, extravagantly stamped in gilt decoration to the front board, gilt lettering, very good and bright having been protected by the dust jacket, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Original plain endpapers. Contents clean and tight, neat gift inscription to the front free end paper, plates and text unmarked, captioned tissue guards to all plates. A very good copy of this superb edition, with the rare dust jacket. Size: Large 4to (26 x 31)
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$289.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete with 20 colour plates. Quarto format. Red cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration. Some faint foxing throughout, otherwise good. A handsome book.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Edward Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$293.96 + shipping
Description: Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine & upper board) Physically 10" x 7¾" (1.2 kg); 0pp; Illustrated by Edmund Dulac; No publishing date stated, estimated from references. Includes: Colour plates (under tissue guards); Colour frontispiece (tissue-guarded with descriptive letter-press); || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #189563|| Condition: Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Plain paper dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier toning to the spine and leading edge of the panels, a little frayed at the spine ends. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned, along with the blanks. Contents clean and bright despite the limited age-toning and scattered spotting.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: unpaginated.Burgundy Cloth with gilt lettering, gilt serpents design on front panel. 20 tipped-in color plates by Dulac (with tissue guards). Black and white drawings as well.Each page with border designs, including the text pages.rubbing to the front panel, as well as the spine edges. Except for light toning, internally near fine. A sumptuously illustrated work! Size: Large 4to
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Burgundy buckram designed and lettered in gilt. Twenty mounted plates by Dulac. A very bright and attractive copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, which has been internally repaired with tape, but looks decent. Gift inscription on the front end paper, dated [1909? 1919?]. A very nice copy.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
FITZGERALD, Edward (transl.). Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam. Hodder& Stoughton Ltd, London, 1909.
Price: US$355.93 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely, large edition of the first Edmund Dulac edition (1909) of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with 110 verses and 21 superb tipped-in colour illustrations - including the frontispiece. Printed from the second edition by permission of Macmillan & Co. All illustrations with tissue guards. Unpaginated. Cream publisher's buckram with rich gilt lettering and decorations to upper board and browned spine (which would clean up with care). Fine throughout with clean, unmarked pages, except for a neat name and date to front peacock feathers design endpaper. Would make an excellent gift for a collector of the many different versions of this charming poem. A larger, heavy book that may require some extra postage, quoted to the buyer at the time of purchase.
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Description: A lovely copy of Edmund Dulac's illustrated edition of Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat'. Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, born in the 2nd Century. He gained great popularity for his poetry after the translation of Edward Fitzgerald. However, Fitzgerald's translations are fairly loose, with some considering that his translation of 'Rubaiyat' could be considered as Fitzgerald's own original poetry that are only loosely based on Khayyam's quatrains.Illustrated with twenty tipped in full colour plates, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Collated, complete.Dulac was a French British illustrator, known for his book illustrations, and stamp designs.Undated; dated 1909 via 'Printed from the second ed. by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd' notice to verso of colophon, and 'Coloured plates and borders printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd., Banbury' to tail of title page verso.In the exceptionally bright publisher's original cloth binding. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Rubbing to spine heads and tails, with small split in cloth to tail of front joint. A touch of fading to back strip, with boards exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
FITZGERALD EDWARD (TRANSLATED BY). RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1909.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: PRINTED FROM THE SECOND EDITION. NO DATE BUT 1909, BOUND IN CREAM BUCKRAM WITH GILT DECORATION TO SPINE AND FRONT BOARD, BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN, WITH 20 TIPPED-IN PLATES BY EDMUND DULAC. A VERY GOOD COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$416.58 + shipping
Description: ( Ohne Erscheinungsjahr - 1909 erschienen - in englischer Sprache ) MIt ca. 120 n.n. Blättern und 20 montierten Farbtafeln nach Edmund Dulac ( so vollständig ). Reich goldgeprägter Oln, 4° ( 29 x 23 cm ). Der Einband ist etwas angestaubt, gering fleckig. Innen von guter Erhaltung, desgleichen die schönen Farbtafeln. ( Gewicht 1600 Gramm ) ( Weitere Bilder auf Anfrage further pics at request )
Seller: Antiquariat Friederichsen, Hamburg, Germany
Fitzgerald, Edward & Dulac, Edmund. Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam. Hodder & Stoughton [1909], 1909.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Large 4to. Unpaginated 20 tissue guarded tipped in colour plates mounted on card with decorated borders by Edmund Dulac. Cream cloth,gilt freize decoration around edges of front cover, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Pictorial eps. Covers slight grubby, corners and top/bottomspine rubbed, edges slight rubbed and faded, eps browned. Slight occasional foxing but contents clean and tight. For its age, an attractive copy. VG-.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth 4to. Lovely near fine example of this illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat with 20 color tipped-on plates by Dulac. Printed from the second edition. Not dated, but likely from 1909. Attractive gilt decorations over cream cloth covers. All plates have their tissue guards. Printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburough University Press. Very attractive copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Edmund Dulac's Rubaiyat [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. KHAYYÁM, Omar. FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 11/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 271 x 213 mm). [60] leaves. Title-page decoratively printed in sepia and light brown. Twenty mounted color plates, including frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Decorative borders to plates and leaves. Bound ca. 1910 for the Times Book Club in full plum calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine with three raised bands, f=decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top-edge gilt, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, marbled end-papers. Some rubbing and slight splitting to joints, but still sound. Ink inscription dated 1923 on top margin of half-title. A reasonably priced example of this classic. Hughey 21a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$467.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small folio. 285mm x 225mm. Cream-coloured cloth with elaborate gilt illustration and titles on the front cover. Decorated endpapers. Twenty, coloured tipped-in plates all with tissue guards complete. A truly lovely bright almost fine copy of this classic which has been preserved in the original box which is somewhat marked and grubby. Original book boxes by their nature were usually hasty discarded so this is a unique survivor. Dulac [1882-1953] was a French/British illustrator of the Golden Age of Edwardian illustrated book production.
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Dulac, Edmund; Edward Fitzgerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Thick quarto, bound in cream cloth lettered in gilt, with front cover gilt design of peacocks and elephants; olive patterned endpapers; covers soiled. Hodder edition, translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, along with 20 tipped-in color plates and corresponding tissue guards by Edmund Dulac. A striking copy of a timeless work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
KHAYYAM (Omar).. Rubaiyat.. Hodder and Stoughton, OLLENDORF, 1909.
Price: US$492.22 + shipping
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fittzgerald. With Illustration by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stoughton, (1909), in-4, percaline ornée de motifs dorés orientalisant, titre au dos. Belle édition ornée de vingt planches en couleurs, dont le frontispice, d'Edmond DULAC, qui accompagne ces quatrains, consacrés aux plaisirs des femmes et du vin. Les illustrations d'Edmond DULAC, empreintes d'une certaine mélancolie, sont influencées par l'Art Persan. Petites usures, taches, report de colle sur les gardes, légers plis. Livre
Seller: Librairie Chretien, PARIS, France
Price: US$493.32 + shipping
Description: Tela editoriale bianca con titoli e ricchi decori impressi in oro al ds. e al piatto anteriore. Carte di guardia decorate. Lievi, sporadiche fioriture ma esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Prima edizione. 4to (cm. 27,8), 120 pp.nn. con 20 tavv. f.t. a colori applicate e protette da velina (di cui una in antiporta).
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: N.d, 1909, the first of Dulac's versions of the Rubaiyat. Limited edition, No. 1 of 200 intended for the U.S. market. With 20 tipped-in plates. Folio, 32 by 25 cm, 12.5 by 10 inches. Interior tight and generally clean. Browning of page edges, which were cut unevenly. Browning of card stock leaves upon which plated tipped onto. Vellum has film of soilage all about, and gilt lettering mostly faded on spine, less so on board decoration. Note that the American limited run was NOT signed by Dulac.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, Edward [trans.]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder & Stoughton [1909], London, 1909.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. Unpaginated. Publisher's original elaborately gilt-decorated cream-coloured cloth; patterned endpapers. Boards bright and fresh. Occasional spots to pages, generally internally clean. Ink inscription dated 1909 to prelim. The first Edmund Dulac edition, with twenty tipped-in and tissue guarded colour plates. Coloured plates and borders printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd. of Banbury. 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: , approximately 120 unpaginated pages, 20 tipped in colour illustrations with tissue guards, bound by George Bayntun First edition thus , slight rubbing to corners, fine lightly sunned, endpapers and half title a little foxed, very good condition , half red morocco and red cloth, marbled endpapers, five raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt top edge , 28.5 cm x 22.5 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with English Verse from Edward Fitzgerald's second translated edition and illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped cloth, gilt tltles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japaneses vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$704.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Unpaginated. Recently bound in a full red morocco. Decorative gilt borders to boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. Top edge gilt. Original patterned endpapers. Inner hinges renewed. The first Edmund Dulac edition, with twenty tipped-in and tissue-guarded colour plates. Coloured plates and borders printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd. of Banbury. A handsome copy of this classic. 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$736.50 + shipping
Description: First Dulac trade edition, first impression. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). Fitzgerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of Fitzgerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition). Doran stated that "the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great". Hughey 21a. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America, 1977. Quarto. Original cream cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Spine slightly toned, binding a little soiled, occasional foxing and browning; a very good copy with uncreased plates.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$764.50 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, from the second Quaritch un-illustrated edition (with the additional quatrains). 20 beautiful full page color plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to, publishers original full red cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in pictorial designs in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very bright, clean and handsome copy with exceptional color plates. FIRST EDITION IN THE BRIGHT RED CLOTH. Announced in June 1909, Edward Fitzgeralds translation of the 12th century Persian RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, newly illustrated by Edmund Dulac, became the Gift Book of the year. Each page of verses or quatrains was printed on heavy paper surrounded by delicate borders and was frequently interspersed with Dulacs evocative paintings. After the RUBAIYATS publication in America, its US publisher wrote of the book."In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement.was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and a treasure, Its public acceptance was immediate and great." -A.Hughey. One can see why the book received such immediate and unalloyed admiration. For on these twenty exquisitely detailed pages, one finds unsurpassed artistic expression. The viewer is irresistibly drawn into the Persian poetical world of starry nights, labrythine bazaars, dusty streets, flower perfumed bowers, and sultry royal palaces. We can almost smell the pungent incense and feel the hot air move as the fan stirs a tiny breeze. We are palpably drawn into Dulacs hypnotic images of Middle Eastern sensation and emotion. The artist used intense but subtle tones of color to create a rich tapestry of visual contrasts, page after page. Pale flesh is swathed in delicate patterned silks and set to pose on hillsides of velvet grass. Figures emerge from opalescent nights and drink thirstily from silver goblets. Dulac vividly captures the temptations of the senses as Omar himself succumbed to them. The RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM illustrations portray a humanity, poignant and complex, as perhaps nowhere else in Dulacs repertoire. The modern reader can partake of Fitzgeralds spell-binding translation of one of the finest poems ever written, while sipping the spiced wine of Dulacs sensuous illustrations.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$864.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [124]p, original white gilt decorated buckram, decorative endpapers. Externally very good indeed, internally an occasional hint of foxing, a neat gift inscription to front endpaper, but generally bright and clean. Housed in the original cream box, in Fair condition only, heavily rubbed and darkened, with worming to lower panel and repairs to inner corners. With twenty full page tissue guarded colour plates by Dulac. Potter 131 Size: 4to
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$874.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. The poem taken from the second Quaritch edition of the 19th century (with the additional quatrains added). 20 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac mounted on cream colored sheets with elaborate border designs, another border design encloses each page of the text. 4to, publishers original full white polished buckram lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on spine and upper cover. The decorated cover depicts a wreath, composed at the top of two peacocks and at the bottom, of two elephants facing. A wonderful copy of this very beautifully produced book, the text block and plates all in very fine condition, the white cloth still very fresh and very bright, the giltwork sharp and very well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THE WONDERFUL ISSUE ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC. Announced in June 1909, Edward Fitzgeralds translation of the 12th century Persian RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, newly illustrated by Edmund Dulac, became the Gift Book of the year. Each page of verses or quatrains was printed on heavy paper surrounded by delicate borders and was frequently interspersed with Dulacs evocative paintings. After the RUBAIYATs publication in America, its US publisher wrote of the book--"In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement.was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and a treasure, Its public acceptance was immediate and great." -A.Hughey. One can see why the book received such immediate and unalloyed admiration. For on these twenty exquisitely detailed pages, one finds unsurpassed artistic expression. The viewer is irresistibly drawn into the Persian poetical world of starry nights, labyrinthine bazaars, dusty streets, flower perfumed bowers, and sultry royal palaces. We can almost smell the pungent incense and feel the hot air move as the fan stirs a tiny breeze. We are palpably drawn into Dulacs hypnotic images of Middle Eastern sensation and emotion. The artist used intense but subtle tones of color to create a rich tapestry of visual contrasts, page after page. Pale flesh is swathed in delicate patterned silks and set to pose on hillsides of velvet grass. Figures emerge from opalescent nights and drink thirstily from silver goblets. Dulac vividly captures the temptations of the senses as Omar himself succumbed to them. The RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM illustrations portray a humanity, poignant and complex, as perhaps nowhere else in Dulacs repertoire. The modern reader can partake of Fitzgeralds spell-binding translation of one of the finest poems ever written, while sipping the spiced wine of Dulacs sensuous illustrations.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: First Dulac trade edition. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). Fitzgerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s, many of Fitzgerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition) that "the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great". Hughey 21a. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America, 1977. Quarto. Attractively bound in recent reddish-brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With 20 tipped-in colour plates, tissue guards. Some occasional mild foxing, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, not dated, Later Edition. First edition thus, from the Second Edition by kind permission of Messrs Macmillan. 20 tipped in and tissue guarded beautiful full colour plates by Edmund Dulac, (including the frontispiece). Edward Fitzgeralds translation of the 12th century Persian RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, newly illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The 20th Quatrain plate has a folded corner and chipping to the bottom left corner, otherwise plates are very good. Approximately 10 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, five raised gilt bands with six elaborately decorated compartments. Joints good condition sound, rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn with some loss to the bottom front corner. Boards good condition half leather and cloth boards with gilt edge to the leather, marks and scratches, with the leather peeling to the corners. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, others tanned and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition brown text with illustrated border. Pages good condition lightly tanned with very minor foxing to some pages, 20 tipped in, tissue guarded colour plates throughout, Quatrain 20 has a folded and chipped corner. Binding good condition attractive binding. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: not dated Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted with captioned tissue guards. Plates and text within decorative borders. First Trade Edition. 4to. [285 x 220 x 32 mm]. Bound in the publisher's original white cloth, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, decorated endleaves, plain edges. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. A fine copy. With the ink signature of D. M. West. There was also a limited signed edition of 750 copies.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST DULAC EDITION. 4to. (10.8 x 8.6 inches). 20 mounted colour plates on thick art paper, framed with decorative border design. Each plate covered with printed tissue paper guard. Finely bound in early full white vellum binding. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling and red morocco label, lettered and decorated in gilt. Front board lettered in dark brown in English and Arabic and with decorative outer corners in brown, within gilt ruled lines. Marbled endpapers printed in gold and brown on white paper. Etched illustrated bookplate, dated 1931, to the front pastedown. Some toning to the vellum but overall a very good and attractive copy of this beautiful book. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a skilled binder. ----- Hughey. Edmund Dulac. His book illustrations. A Bibliography; 21a.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japanese vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. This edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac, of which this is number 212. In near fine condition. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12" x 10"; pp. [162]; Edition DeLuxe, #199 of 750 signed by Edmund Dulac, on hand moulded pape, pictorial vellum bound, 20 color plates tipped in/mounted loose wthin decorative gilt border; text within decorative brown border, Edward Fitzgeralds 1868 text. Potter 131
Seller: Little Sages Books, ABAA/ILAB, Longmont, CO, U.S.A.
KHAYYAM (Omar).. Rubaiyat.. Hodder and Stoughton, OLLENDORF, 1909.
Price: US$1134.63 + shipping
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fittzgerald. With Illustration by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stoughton, (1909), in-4, vélin orné de motifs dorés orientalisant, titre au dos, tête dorée, fermé par un ruban. Première édition traduite. Belle édition ornée de vingt planches en couleurs, dont le frontispice, d'Edmond DULAC, qui accompagne ces quatrains, consacrés aux plaisirs des femmes et du vin. Les illustrations d'Edmond DULAC, empreintes d'une certaine mélancolie, sont influencées par l'Art Persan. Tirage limité à 750 exemplaires justifié et numéroté par l'artiste. Livre
Seller: Librairie Chretien, PARIS, France
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Approx. 124 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. The American Limited edition, copy 40 of 200 with book label of Paul Elder, San Francisco back cover free endpaper (recto). Printed from the second edition. Twenty mounted color plates within decorative borders, all with lettered tissue guards, peacock feather motif endpapers. A clean, brilliant copy, only flaw a slight bump backstrip foot. HUGHEY 21d. Orig. full vellum decorated in gilt designs, cover and backstrip with original brown cloth ties. Teg. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japanese vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. This edition is limited to two hundred copies, for the United States of America, of which this is number 188. In near fine condition. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 750 deluxe copies, signed by the illustrator. Hardcover, bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates. Some minor scuffing and the common splay to the boards; the un-cut fore-edge rippled; ties renewed.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Omar Khayyam. RUBAIYAT. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First English trade edition. Quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, each page with decorative borders in dull gilt over tan. Bound in half red leather over red cloth sides, text block edges stained red, the spine with gilt titles on blue labels and with gilt floral panel ornaments. Hughey 21a. Some rubbing and light scratch on upper cover, else tight and attractive, contents and plates all fine
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Tipped in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac, each with printed tissue overleaf. Folio, publisher's gilt vellum; t.e.g. One of the original ribbon ties is detached but present. First edition; No. 190 of 750 copies signed by Edmund Dulac. Some minor soiling to the white vellum; covers very slightly bowed; contents very fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
KHAYYAM Omar DULAC Edmond. Rubaiyat. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Price: US$1512.84 + shipping
Description: - Hodder and Stoughton, London 1909, In-4 (22x28,6cm), relié. - | Le chef d'oeuvre de Khayyam par un maître de l'Age d'or de l'Illustration | Imprimée sur la seconde édition sur papier courant après l'originale parue également en 1909 et limitée à 750 exemplaires signés par l'artiste. Impression sur papier vélin. Cartonnage d'éditeur en pleine percaline crème avec une grande plaque décorative dorée sur le premier plat. Ce cartonnage avait déjà servi pour le premier tirage. Dos lisse. Titre et éditeur dorés. Rousseurs pâles éparses dans les marges. Quelques salissures sur le cartonnage, mais bel exemplaire. Un feuillet volant de l'exposition des originaux aux galeries de Leicester datant de 1909. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] | Khayyam's masterpiece by a master of the Golden Age of Illustration | London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by the artist. Original publisher's cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt. Colour frontispiece and colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Cloth soiled, some foxing to margins. With a loose leaflet advertising the exhibition of the original drawings at Leicester galleries in 1909.
Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: , approximately 120 unpaginated pages, 20 tipped in colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac, number 547 of a limited edition of 750 signed by Edmund Dulac on the limitation page Limited Edition , some browning to fore edge of vellum on front board, edges untrimmed and darkened in places, book in very good condition , slipcase discoloured and worn around edges, fair condition , full vellum, gilt title to front and spine, elaborate gilt decoration to front board, patterened endpapers, gilt top edge, ribbons , 32 cm x 25.5 cm Hardback SIGNED by illustrator ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1761.19 + shipping
Description: First Dulac trade edition. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). "Those who have revelled in the romance of the Arabian Nights and of Shakespeare, or the melancholy invitation to drink and forget in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, will feel that in the illustrations which Dulac has painted their most fleeting and fantastic dreams have been caught and pressed between the pages like butterflies" (Stuart, p. 87). Hughey 21a; Potter 131. Evelyn Marie Stuart, "Edmund Dulac - A Poet of the Brush", Fine Arts Journal, vol. 23, no. 2. Quarto (269 x 205 mm). Finely bound by Asprey in mid-20th-century red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, single rule to boards gilt, title blocked to front board gilt, triple rule to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates tipped to cream paper, captioned tissue guards printed in green, floral borders throughout printed in brown and green. Bookplate to front pastedown, excellent condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being 68). Large quarto (12 5/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 313 x 250 mm.). [124] pages (including inserted title). Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Later silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Tan end-papers stamped in light olive green with a repeated peacock feather design. Ink name on front paste-down. Twenty color plates mounted on buff vellum-like paper with gilt over tan decorative borders. With descriptive tissue guards. Text printed on rectos only within a brown decorative border. Minimal discoloration to vellum, front board very slightly bowed, otherwise a Near Fine copy. "In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement. was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great." Hughey 21.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
DULAC, EDMUND, Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Hodder and Stoughton [1909], London, 1909.
Price: US$2340.00 + shipping
Description: 320 x 255 mm. (12 1/2 x 10"). [58] leaves.Translated by Edward FitzGerald (second version, 110 quatrains). Original stiff vellum, gilt, upper cover with whimsical frame formed by the sweeping tails of two peacocks perched at the head of the board, these decorated with flowers, two elephants at the foot of the frame, lettering in faux Arabic script to upper cover and smooth spine, two tan silk ribbon closures, endpapers patterned with peacock feathers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. 20 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, with numbered tissue guards. Potter 131; Paas 2583. âHalf-inch crack at top of front joint, ribbon closures with minor fraying (though both intact and snug), a whisper of soiling to the vellum, minor bumping at spine ends, other similarly trivial imperfections, but still qualifying as a fine copy and notable for not having the typical splaying to the vellum. This is the deluxe limited edition of an "Art Gift Book" illustrated by the celebrated Edmund Dulac. A review in The London Times on 18 October 1909 praised the work: "As a designer Mr. Dulac is wonderfully varied, and as a draughtsman often exquisite. His colour, too, is charming, with the preciosity that is to be expected from an illustrator of a poet of the East." Dulac (1882-1953) studied art at the university in his native Toulouse before emigrating to England when he was 22, at just the time when the process of color separation was making it possible to print faithfully the glowing colors of his palette. Between 1907, when his "Arabian Nights" appeared, and 1920, his works found an appreciative audience. Influenced by the work of the older artist Arthur Rackham, Dulac's illustrations have a sophisticated and exotic tone with rich color, reminiscent of the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Houfe says, "Dulac was immensely versatile and had more sense of color and design than most of his English contemporaries, excepting Rackham. He looked to the Middle and Far East for inspiration, and his watercolors of legendary subjects have a gemlike brilliance found only in Mogul miniatures, their flat, stylized and sleepy beauty sometimes comes from the Japanese print, sometimes from the Pre-Raphaelites and even occasionally from the Renaissance." After 1920, Dulac, who had become a naturalized British citizen, published several more illustrated fairy tales and also worked as a designer of costumes and sets. No. 215 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2561.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited UK edition No. 242/750 signed by the artist Edmund Dulac (the American Limited edition run is smaller but not signed). Comes with slipcase. Silk ties and all illustrations are present,covered by tissue guards (all present) and are very good indeed. Vellum is uniformly browned. Page edges are browned and the bottom page edges have some darkening towards the spine but this does not penetrate to pages. A sound copy of this beautiful book. No inscriptions. Extra postage applies. More images available on request.
Seller: Langton Books, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3522.38 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 259 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). Fitzgerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of Fitzgerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition). Doran stated that "the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great". Hughey 21. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America, 1977. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, renewed silk ties. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Gift inscription on first page. Spine a little toned and creased, minor marks to covers, crease to one plate, minor chip to rear free endpaper: a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom