The Rubáiyát

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Lot 178 | The Rubáiyát
Rivière & Sons, binders. – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. London: Robert Rivière & Son, Ltd., 1928.

In pictorial morocco binding by Rivière.

Octavo (205 x 135mm). Title printed in blue and black. With 12 hand-colored lithographs with tissue guards. Contemporary crushed morocco extra by Rivière and Sons, upper cover with pictorial morocco inlay of a snake stamped in black and partially painted, entwined around a gilt goblet; both covers with wide grape and leaf borders of inlaid green, gray and purple morocco , an outer frame of two double-fillets with a quotation from stanza 58: "Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man, Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give—and take!" The lower cover's central image is a grape leaf; spine gilt in compartments with further inlaid grapes; stamped-signed by Rivière on the upper turn-in, all edges gilt (touch of rubbing to joints, small dent to f.f.e. and first several fly-leaves); fleece-lined slipcase.
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