[Grolier Club] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1885, LTD/150, Printed on Japan vellum For Sale

Omar Khayyám. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. New York, The Grolier Club, 1885. One of 150 copies printed on Japan paper, with two additional copies printed on vellum. Illustrated with chromolithographic initials and decorations by Owen Jones; cover design by George Ashdown Audsley. Original wrappers with robin\'s egg blue, dark turquoise, white, and gold decorative floral pattern to covers and spine.

Measures approx. 6.25\" x 9\".Wrappers with very light wear to edges, rubbing and creases to spine, wear to spine tips. Old pencil notes to limitation page. Internally clean, with mild toning.