Vedder, Elihu

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám [Octavo Edition]

Elihu Vedder, illustrator. Edward Fitzgerald, translator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. Popular edition.

Octavo. 58 beautifully illustrated full-page plates (including frontispiece and title page) by Vedder + 61pp text. French fold pages, most unopened. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated endleaves.

1894 octavo “popular edition” after the spectacular folio edition published ten years earlier.

Light rubbing and wear to boards; slight chipping to boards edges; front hinge gently cracked; minor uniform toning throughout; early ink ownership signature dated 1898. Very good. Item #2945

Price: $750.00