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Rubiaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronmer-Poet of Persia; Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald

Rubiaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronmer-Poet of Persia; Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald by Vedder, Elihu (Illustrator)

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Title
Rubiaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronmer-Poet of Persia; Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald
Author
Vedder, Elihu (Illustrator)
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 61 text pages. Upon receiving the commission to illustrate Houghton Mifflin's deluxe edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Elihu Vedder moved to Rome and spent eleven months creating illustrations strongly influenced by Greco-Roman art and Persian mythology. French folded pages. Ornamental title page, 56 full-page illustrations by Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process, printed at the Riverside Press, Mass (moderate spotting in the margins throughout). Grapevine endpapers designed by Vedder. The deluxe edition numbered 100 copies and sold out within six days. It was reprinted in octavo for the first time in 1894. Today Vedder's illustrations are considered to be among the finest ever created for the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Slight loss foot of dust wrapper spine.

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