[KHAYYAM, OMAR]. Rubaiyat. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1947.
New edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (240 x 170 x 30 mm.), pp. 222. English text. Exquisitely bound in full red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet); five raised spine bands, the compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt; both covers beautifully gilt ruled and tooled with elaborate stylized arabesque designs, the board edges and turn-ins similarly gilt decorated; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title page present; 12 tipped-in colour plates by Robert Stewart Sherriffs and 15 full-page colour illustrations by Sir Frank Brangwyn from the Foulis edition first published in 1919. Introduction by Lawrence Housman. With life of Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam. Notes, glossary and bibliography to rear. Printed by Collins Clear-Type Press. Condition: FINE. A wonderful and immaculate copy with no previous ownership marks. Includes the original receipt from George Bayntun dated 18-2-53.
