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Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy has been re-bound in half blue calf to blue cloth covered sides, there is bright gilt titling and bands to the spine. There are silk head and tail bands and gilt top page edges. The edges and corners are sharp and in tact with no evidence of shelf wear or bumping. There are marbled endpapers and a bookplate to the front paste down, there is some evidence of adhesion to the f.e.p. There are fifteen tipped in colour plates by the artist as called for. The text block is unmarked, bright, white, tight and square, Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) was one of the great figures from the Golden Age of Illustration. Born in Toulouse, France, Dulac was artistically inclined from adolescence. He switched from law to art and moved to London where he was in tremendous demand from publishers. Dulac's most famous works of art include beautiful illustrations for books like the Arabian Nights, Sleeping Beauty, Stories from Hans Christian Andersen and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Ref UU5 Size: 166pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Ed. Edward Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Ref.K3 ) Cream cloth bound boards with gilt spine titles and decoration to front. Soiled looking and marked. Yellowed spine etc. Photos on request. Foxing to prelims. Dusty top edge. Yellowed and lightly foxed foredge. Foxing to some page edges throughout.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom