Rubʹaiyʹat of Omar Khayyʹam
By: rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator; Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, illustrator; Hodder and Stoughton; T. and A. Constable; Henry Stone & Son; Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery); Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Illustration of books
Work titles: Rubāʻīyāt
Notes: "This edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies, signed by the artist and numbered ..."

"Printed from the second edition ..."--Title page verso.

"Coloured plates and borders printed by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd., Banbury."--Title page verso.

"Printed by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press."--Colophon.

Illustrated t.p. printed in brown and sage; designer's initials E.D. at foot, within ornaments.

Printed on one side only, excepting 4 prelim. leaves.

Plates mounted within illustrated borders; title and text within borders; letterpress guard-sheets.

Rare Book copy: No. 119, signed by the artist.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red goatskin; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in an Islamic-style center- and cornerpiece design within a frame; spine with five false raised bands, gilt in compartments; board edges gilt with a pin-dot roll; inner joint of red goatskin; doublure of green goatskin, gold-tooled with pictorial designs related to the work; wide turn-ins with gold-tooled frame of fillet lines, pin-dot rolls, and a grapevine roll; free endpapers lined with green watered silk; all edges gilt; red ribbon markers; three-color silk endbands sewn with a front bead; sewn on five recessed supports; signed "Bound by Bayntun, Riviere, Bath, England" at tail end of upper turn-in.