Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám | The First Edition Reprinted Together with Fitzgerald's Monk-Latin Version Now Printed for the First Time. Translations of the Latin and of the Persian Originals and a Critical Essay by Sir. E. Denison Ross. [Signed]
Omar Khayyám (18 May 1048 - 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. [Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 - 14 June 1883)]. Introduction by Charles Ganz. Illustrated by John Buckland Wright [John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) was a painter and draughtsman, but primarily an etcher and engraver who was self-taught]. Alfred W. Doyle | Joan Amos.
(Book #ID 101635)
Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, London, First Thus Edition 1938. 1938.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cream leather spine over orange buckram covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, gilt cockerel decoration to the front cover, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Small folio. 12½'' x 7¾''. Hand written number 286 of 270 (300) copies printed in Perpetua type on Golden Cockerel hand made paper by Arnold & Foster. pp, 31, 75 quatrains, [blank], 63-100 [ii] enriched with 8 full-page engravings by John Buckland Wright. In very near Fine condition. SIGNED inscription by the artist to the front free end paper 'Inscribed for Alfred W. Doyle at the request of Joan Amos - John Buckland Wright, April 1943.' Below which is inscribed 'To my husband, with love, Joan (April 22nd, 1943).' Member of the P.B.F.A.
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