173. Pogány (W.A., “Willy”).- Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, Artist’s copy from an edition limited to 750 for England with an additional etched frontispiece signed in pencil, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Willy Pogány, decorations and mounted illustrations, foxed, original turquoise morocco with gilt floral device incorporating red morocco onlay on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, with the publisher’s original box (worn and crudely repaired), 4to, New York, 1930.
est. £300 – £400
Loosely inserted is a card with note in manuscript which reads, “This book was given to my father Edwin A.Neugass by his friend Willy Pogany.”