Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(SZYK, ARTHUR).

printer

Heritage Press

Place

New York

Publication

1946

Description

Tendered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Large color plates by Szyk. Inscribed by the artist to Helen Davidoff, signed and dated, New Canaan, 1947.

summary

The beautiful illustrations were drawn in color and gold by Arthur Szyk, and engraved in London by the Sun Engraving Company. The text was set, and the pages made-up in English Monotype Sachsenwald with Albertus Capitals, to the design and under the direction of Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press in London.

Original pictorial boards. Lg. 4to.

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