Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – Edmund Dulac illustrations

An attractive example of Edmund Dulac’s illustrated edition of the Persian four-line poem, published in the 1910s or 1920s using the Edward Fitzgerald translation of the text.

Includes 12 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, an acclaimed French-British illustrator who produced work for a number of well-known titles around this period, including the Arabian Nights.

Hardback. Bound in decorative red cloth with gilt lettering and designs. Published in London by Hodder & Stoughton. In very good condition. A few marks externally, mainly to the spine. Clean inside with no writing or bookplates.