DULAC, Edmund (illustrator).

The Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.

Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald.

Stock Code 112742

London, London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1907].

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A beautifully bound copy of the first edition of Dulac's superbly illustrated Rubaiyat.

First Dulac edition, limited to 350 numbered copies, each signed by the artist; large 4to; 20 colour plates, each with a titled paper-guard, text within fancy borders, crimson red morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, upper cover titled and blocked in gilt to the design of the original binding, top edge gilt, others uncut, a very good copy.

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Provenance: Initials 'B. K.' dated 1909 in an elegant hand to verso of limitation leaf.

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