Scarce American edition
Edward Fitzgerald's Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám with Their Original Persian Sources Collated from His Own Mss., and Literally Translated by Edward Heron-Allen.
London & Boston: Bernard Quaritch 15 Piccadilly & L.C.Page and Company, 1899.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First edition thus -- One of 500 copies for America. Frontispiece and decorations are by Ella Hallward. Printed by H.S. Nichols, Ltd. [2] xvi, 163, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches). Red cloth, upper cover elaborately stampeded with central gilt title motif and gilt green corner devices, spine decorated and lettered in gilt with "L.C. Page & / Company / Boston / 1900" stamped at foot of spine. Spine very slightly faded, other wise a very bright, fresh copy. Potter 564.
Item #221452
Very scarce American issue of this edition, in a lovely trade binding by the Boston publisher L.C. Page.
