[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated One of 120 copies

One of 120 copies

Day and their friends at Christmas MDCCCXCV the printing having been done at the University Press in Cambridge Massachusetts

An inscription on the ffep reads: "Illustrated by Caroline Martineau - To be given to Maud Dowson on M

In Search of Sunlight

Here Then is that Helpful as well as Ennobling Discourse Entitled the Essay on Friendship

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated One of 120 copies(Translated by Edward Fitzgerald). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Robert Riviere & Son, 1928. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Reprinted from the 1859 Fitzgerald translation. Tissue covered Gilbert James illustrations. Bound in full brown calf with large gilt stamped design to covers, along with large gilt chalice to the front cover, with an inlaid snake twining around the chalice, the snake having been painted in green, black, and red. Five bands to