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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo (8" x 5 7/8"), blue cloth with title surrounded by Art Nouveau gilt designs on spine and more boldly with facing elephants holding up the embossed "tent" gilt title on front cover; illustrated with a gorgeous colored frontispiece and 11 colored plates tipped-in & mounted on thick light brown paper with decorative borders & protected by tissue guards with printed descriptions [book printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears]; pictorial endpapers with light green Art Nouveau designs against pale yellow, unpaginated, viii + 189 pages. The Fitzgerald text consists of two English language versions of The Rubaiyat from the First and Second Edition. The Edmund Dulac illustrated Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám is generally considered the high point of Dulac's artistry and was an immediate, enormous success. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French born & British-naturalised magazine illustrator, brilliant book illustrator, and stamp designer. The Fitzgerald translation remains the perennial favorate. This text consists of two English language versions of The Rubaiyat from the First and Second Edition by Fitzgerald. Solid copy with moderate wear; bright gilt on spine and front cover; light uniform age-toning to pages, and slight foxing on pages i-v. Presentation on verso of half title by previous owner is dated 1918. Back cover by top of gutter has a 1" narrow ink stain. The beautiful Dulac illustrations are all present and in EXCELLENT CONDITION and without foxing. Overall, a beautifully illustrated copy of this classic poem.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: EARLY DULAC EDITION. Large 8vo. (7.9 x 5.9 inches). viii,189p. Finely illustrated with 12 fine coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped on to thick buff paper with a triple ruled brown border. Each plate with a printed tissue guard. Two plates have been re-inserted and there is a little damage to the inner margin of the relevant tissue guards. Finely bound in beautiful early full tan calf binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Raised bands to spine, each with gilt piping. Compartments rulled and decorated in gilt. Brown morocco label, gilt. Gilt ruled line border to boards with decorative blind tooled roll and gilt decoration to the front panel. Board edges with single gilt ruled lines. Turn-ins ruled and decorated in gilt. Purple and gold patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Attractive illustrated bookplate of previous owner to the front pastedown endpaper. Some very minimal rubbing to the extremities and the spine is darkened but generally this is an excellent and attractive copy. Housed in a custom made felt lined slip case covered using the same purple and gold paper as the endpapers. The case is rubbed and worn but has done it's job of protecting the book. Overall a very good copy in a very attractive leather binding. -- More photos available on request.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom