[RUBÁIYÁT] FITZGERALD (translator). Reynold Alleyne NICHOLSON (editor). Gilbert JAMES (illustrat…. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

[RUBÁIYÁT] FITZGERALD (translator). Reynold Alleyne NICHOLSON (editor). Gilbert JAMES (illustrator). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London; Adam and Charles Black 1909.

4to. Original white cloth prettily decorated to an Islamic design in royal blue to spine and upper board, lettered in gilt; pp. [vi], vii-viii, [1]-202 + [i]; decorated throughout with border designs, vignettes, and other Islamic motifs printed in grey alongside a total of 16 coloured plates, with filigree printed borders, by Gilbert James; an uncommonly bright, and near fine, copy with only slight shadowed fading to lower board; internally clean with some pale toning and light diffuse foxing.
Early edition illustrated thus; first issued with James' illustrations in 1904.

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