Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám | [Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald] | Willy Pogany Illustrated Edition | Edition De-Luxe | Fine William Turner Morrell Binding | [Signed] + Publisher's Original Prospectus
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)]. Illustrated by Willy Pogany (August 24, 1882 - July 30, 1955) prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. [William Turner Morrell] Ármin Vámbéry, also known as Arminius Vámbéry (19 March 1832 - 15 September 1913), was a Hungarian Turkologist and traveller.
(Book #ID 101990)
Published by George G. Harrap & Co., 15 York Street, Covent Garden, London First Edition 1909. 1909.
First edition de-luxe hard back binding in publisher's original full vellum, hand-tooled gilt decorative spine and front board motif with crescent moons, ivy leaves, hearts and flowers, dotted gilt tooled board edges, twin parallel lines to the rear board, turn-ins with double ruled lines and small stars to the corners surrounded by eight tiny stars, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in 'Morrell Binder', three colour Persian style patterned third end sheets, top edge gilt. 4to. 11¼'' x 8''. Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd., Lithographers, London. Hand written number 11 of 25 Limited De-Luxe Edition copies SIGNED by the artist 'Willy Pogany'. Rubáiyát over unnumbered pages printed on Japanese Vellum carrying the 75 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with 24 full-page single-sided tissue-guarded colour plates mounted upon a suitable paper within a plate marked impression. The poem has been printed throughout in different colour Arabic calligraphic font with art nouveau style surround. The colour scheme suggests Eastern inspiration and the artist has specially studied to reproduce the spirit of the Poem, and he has been assisted throughout by a competent Orientalist, a pupil of Professor Ármin Vámbéry. Enclosed with this volume is Harrap's original folding card prospectus, being the actual size of the book, giving details for this volume, the Ordinary Edition and the Limited Edition of 525 copies. Inside front cover with tipped-in colour plate [+ one duplicate spare plate] showing an example of the artwork by Willy Pogany from quatrain 29. Small brown marks across the front cover, and one brown mark to the rear cover, some of the tissues are loose with small nicks to the edges. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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