The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

by Fine Binding - Riviere, Son

$7,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1928. Special edition. Octavo 8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 137 mm. . ii, blank , iii-viii , 75, 1, imprint pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold, and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Caslon Old Face type on Studio hand-made paper, some light marginal foxing to plates, otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son

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