Variorum Edition in Dust Jackets

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. English, French and German Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the Text of Edward Fitzgerald’s Version. With Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliography and Other Material Collected and Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole.

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896.

Price: $500.00


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Variorum Edition de Luxe, no. 64 of 250 copies. Frontispiece portraits. clxxix, 203 pp; vi, [205]-597 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Variorum Edition in Dust Jackets. Full white buckram gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Fine bright copy, partially unopened, in the original publisher’s green cloth dust jackets with spine panels in gilt to the design of the spine stamping (jacket spines toned, some superficial soiling to jacket. Potter 575; Tanselle Book Jackets 96.69.

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