Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam gypsies Original black cloth with the

Original black cloth with the unclipped dust-jacket

frontispiece + 15 further plates of drawings

Fridtjof Nansen trained as a scientist and earned his doctorate in zoology

previous owner's name

Edges of text block darkened and untrimmed

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam gypsies Original black cloth with theLondon: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909]. First Dulac trade edition. Quarto. Original cream coloured cloth, spine and front cover elaborately decorated in gilt design with gilt titles and publisher's mark to the spine. Patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, behind captioned tissue guards, by Edmund Dulac. Patches of light foxing to the half title page. A Fine copy. First translated by Fitzgerald in 1859 from