Lot 2124 , The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustrated by Ronald Balfour. new edition. pictorial title (printed in green and black), 6 coloured and mounted plates, 33 other plates (14 part coloured), text illus. and decorations; orig
° The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Illustrated by Ronald Balfour. new edition. pictorial title (printed in green and black), 6 coloured and mounted plates, 33 other plates (14 part coloured), text illus. and decorations; original patterned boards (lacks spine), 4to. 1930; De La Motte Fouqué - Undine ... illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1st trade edition. pictorial title, 15 coloured and mounted plates (with captioned guards) and text decorations; original gilt pictorial cloth, pictorial e/ps., roy. 8vo. 1909; The Arabian Nights Entertainments ... very many illus. throughout (by W.H. Robinson, Helen Stratton and others); original pictorial cloth, ge., 4to. (1898?) (3)
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Condition:
Omar - lacks spine as noted, covers lt. faded, few sl. plt. margin marks, 2 plts with sl. crease lower lh. corner, includes half title; orig. publ. 19 Undine - sl. spine and other cloth wear, front inner hinge cracked, marked spotting e/ps. and last leaf, intermittently in text, 1 plt. v.sl. blemish, cont. inscriptn. front e/p. (clear of decoration); Arabian - cloth lt. faded, front inner hinge weak, good inside, 490pp. and '551' illus.; contemp. neat inscriptn.
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