The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia

London: The Folio Society, 2009. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies for members only, The present copy is number 181 signed and numbered on an original etching by the artist Niroot Puttapipat, and another 16 color illustrations mounted within a gilt frame, introduction by A.S. Byatt. 216(1)pp., translated by Edward Fitzgerald which was first published in 1859. A beautiful copy bound in 1/4 vellum over blue paper covered baords decorated in gilt, copper and tan depicting two peacocks within a gilt decorated frame, spine lettering gilt, top edge gilt, corners vellum, housed within publishers' dark blue clamshell, paper spine label. A beautiful (truncated) production. (Inventory #: 023378)