Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By: illuminated by A. Formilli
Edition: Saint Dunstan edition
Series: St. Dunstan volumes
Publisher: George D. Sproul
Published: 1901
Place of publication: New York?
Language: eng
Work titles: Rubāʻīyāt
Notes: On vellum; each leaf printed on recto only; title page elaborately illuminated; half-title and initial letters throught illuminated.

"Saint Dunstan edition ... It is guaranteed to subscribers that eighteen copies only of this edition have been made for sale in America, and twelve copies only for sale in Europe, and that no future edition will be issued; that it is printed from type and the type has been distributed ..."--Half-title.

Printed by the University Press, Cambridge, MA.-- See The St. Dunstan volumes: a revival of the lost art of illumination (London & New York: Sproul, [1902 or 1903])

Leather book label of Paul Edward Chevalier.

This is copy 14 "specially prepared for S. Jennie Sorg" (née Susan Jennie Gruver, later Mrs. Paul J. Sorg)

Elaborately bound in green morocco with central white onlay panel with central floral design in green, red, and gold onlays and gilt decorations by Trautz-Bauzonnet; similarly designed morocco doublures; in green cloth covered slipcase.