Lot 2125 , Dulac, Edmund (illustrator) - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, second edition, 4to, 20 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, original cream buckram, gilt decoration to upper c

° Dulac, Edmund (illustrator) - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, second edition, 4to, 20 tipped-in colour plates, tissue-guards, original cream buckram, gilt decoration to upper cover, Hodder & Stoughton, London, [1909]. Together with 5 other illustrated volumes, including Florence du Cane’s ‘The Flowers and Gardens of Japan’, 1908, and Dorothy and Mortimer Menpes’ ‘Japan, a Record in Colour’, 1905, and R. Talbot Kelly’s ‘Egypt, Painted and Described’, 1904, and Alicia Amherst’s ‘A History of Gardening in England’, 1896, and ‘The Poetical Works of John Keats’, 1902 (6).
£50-80

Condition:
‘Rubaiyat’: light to moderate spotting to all text leaves and verso plates, spotting to half-title, minor soiling and a stain to lower cover, minor marks upper cover.

Sold for £340