[KHAYYAM, OMAR]. Rubaiyat. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909.
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (250 x 180 x 35 mm.), pp. viii, 203. English text. Exquisitely bound in full red morocco by Henry Sotheran (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet); front cover ornately gilt decorated with snake and chalice design, double gilt fillets to boards with Moorish corner-pieces; single dotted edge-roll; five raised spine bands, the compartments and bands fully ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt; turn-ins ornately gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title present; decorative title-page printed in green and black; 75 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with decorative textual borders and 16 colour illustrations by Gilbert James. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: FINE. A wonderful and immaculate copy without previous ownership markings.
