BUCKLAND WRIGHT (JOHN)


OMAR KHAYYAM. The... Rubáiyát, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, NUMBER 16 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, WITH 5 EXTRA ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT, and 8 facsimiles after Fitzgerald's manuscript, signed by the illustrator and other collaborators on the colophon, 8 full-page engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, the 5 additional engraved plates and facsimiles in a wallet inside the lower cover, original cream morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-blocked decoration on the upper cover, t.e.g., spine soiled, slipcase (lightly soiled), folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938
|ONE OF 30 COPIES, WITH AN ADDITIONAL 5 ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT, these having a slightly more erotic content than those published in the book.Provenance: Lady Birkett, Bertram Rota invoice (May 1950) loosely inserted.