[KHAYYAM, OMAR]. Rubaiyat. Rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated in Colour and in Line by Rene Bull. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [ca. 1913].
First edition thus. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (25cm x 18cm x 3.5cm), unpaginated. English text with illustrations throughout. Exquisitely bound in full red morocco gilt, unsigned but probably by Henry Sotheran; the 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 blue and black; 75 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with decorative textual borders and 10 full-page tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 19 smaller mounted colour plates, line drawings and borders throughout, all by René Bull. Printed by Henry Stone & Son, Banbury, England. Condition: NEAR FINE. A wonderful and near immaculate copy without previous ownership markings. The covers beautifully preserved. The interior with a couple of trivial light fox spots.
