RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 1900 BOUND BY RAMAGE

[KHAYYÁM, OMAR]. Rubáiyát. London: Macmillan and Co., 1909.

REPRINT OF THE GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. Leather-bound; hardcover; small octavo (15.5 x 10 x 1.5 cm); pp. [6], 111. Translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. Bound by John Ramage in full morocco (gilt-stamped signed to front turn-in). Beautifully decorated in gilt with gilt wheel, corner pieces and borders. Five raised bands to spine, the compartments lettered and decorated gilt. Watered silk doublures, decorated crescent moon and border gilt turn-ins. All page edges gilt. Half-title. Title-page printed in red and black. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: FAIR. Binding secure, although the spine is darkened with rubbing to the joints, splitting at the head with an old glued repair, the boards well-preserved. Interior with staining to the endpapers, and an inscription to the front blank, else remaining clean.