[Fine Binding | Knickerbocker Press] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam E-List 23 surrounding a burgundy doublure

surrounding a burgundy doublure

at the Chiswick Press for] George Bell and Sons

Light wear at edges and corners

Spine in Japan vellum with titles and motifs used on title label stamped in gilt

[Fine Binding | Knickerbocker Press] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam E-List 23 surrounding a burgundy doublureFitzgerald, Edward (trans.). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer Poet of Persia. London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. Bound by G. P. Putnam's Sons at The Knickerbocker Press (signed on the front and rear turn ins) in full dark blue morocco in the Jansenist style, with the title in gilt to the second compartment of spine. Full morocco doublures with inlaid dark brown center panel, with gilt ruling, crescent moons at each corner, accented with small