Description
Signed limited edition of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, published in 1909 in London.
Quarto, [unpaginated]. Full vellum, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Embellished with gilt design to cover. Modern bronze silk ribbons attached to fore-edge. Top edge gilt. Patterned endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, covers bowing, as is common with vellum binding. Faint soiling and foxing along edges of binding. Complete with twenty full-page plates, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, including frontispiece. (Hughey 21)
One of 750 signed copies, this one numbered 42. Signed by the illustrator, Edmund Dulac, on the limitation page.
This work was printed from the second edition, with permission of Macmillan & Company.
