Lot 2075 , 'Pogany, Willy (illustrator) – 3 works – Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, limited edition, being number 49 of 1250 copies signed by Pogany, 4to, 12 tipped-i

° 'Pogany, Willy (illustrator) – 3 works – Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, limited edition, being number 49 of 1250 copies signed by Pogany, 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, original green morocco, gilt green and red decoration to upper cover, t.e.g., London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930; Richard Wagner – Tannhauser, A Dramatic Poem Freely Translated In Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston, first trade edition, 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original grey pictorial cloth, gilt, London, G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911; Richard Wagner – The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, by T.W. Rolleston, first trade edition, 4to, 8 tipped-in colour plates, original brown pictorial cloth, gilt, London, G.G. Harrap & Co., [1913]. Together with Rudyard Kipling’s ‘A Song of the English’, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, first trade edition, 4to, [1909] (4).
£200-300

Condition:
‘Rubaiyat’: heavy marginal spotting to all plate and text leaves, no inscriptions, sunning to spine and top edge of upper cover; ‘Tannhauser’: sl. toning to page margins and browning to e/papers, no inscriptions, sl. spine lean and rubbing to spine ends, extremities bumped; ‘Lohengrin’: faint spotting to e/papers, internally neat and clean, no inscriptions, sl. staining to upper cover and edge of lower cover, extremities lightly bumped; ‘Song of the English’: toning, sl. spotting to half-title and fore-edge, sm. illegible gift inscription to title, lacking front blank[?], lightly bumped extremities.

Sold for £400