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91. Omar Khayyám. The...Rubáiyát, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, number 7 of 30 specially-bound copies signed by the artist and other contributors and with 5 additional engravings and collotype facsimiles of Fitzgerald’s translation, from an edition limited to 300, copper-engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, additional engravings and facsimiles in pocket at end, original pictorial cream morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g, others uncut, spine slightly rubbed and soiled, cloth slip-case (spotted), [Pertelote 138], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.

est. £1000 – £1500

The additional engravings are of a more erotic nature and do not appear in the ordinary edition.

Sold for £2400
Sale 649, 15th May 2008


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