Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám
New York: Garden City Books. 1952. Binding: Full white decorative cloth boards. Upper and spine richly decorated in green and red floral design. Pictorial pasted and free endpapers. Top edges red.
, Notes: Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1131) was a prominent Persian polymath, astronomer, historian, and poet. Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books. After the war, the deluxe children's book market shrank, and he then turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
, Size: Quarto (240 x 175mm), Illustration: A very good example. Illustrated with colour plates. , Pages: 191 pp., Category: Book Literature; Book Asia Middle East Iran;. Spine defective, lower joint exposed. Item #B7140
Price: $125.00