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Binding.- Omar Khayyam. The Rubaiyat... Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald .. Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski& G. Sutcliffe, number 79 of 550 copies signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, colour plates, handsome red panelled morocco gilt by Bayntun-Rivière, covers with multiple fillets enclosing design of a chalice encoiled by a snake, the snake formed by a brown morocco onlay, black morocco onlay forming a Moorish frame, the upper cover heightened with paste jewels (1 lacking), spine in six compartments, all but two with central floral tool within double filet borders, the others with black morocco labels, g.e., housed in a buckram drop-back box, 4to (binding 334 x 254mm.), Siegle, Hill & Co., [1911]. ⁂ A fine example of the work of Bayntun-Rivière. Sangorski famously presided over the creation of a supremely elaborate peacock binding for the 'Rubaiyat' on commission from Sotheran's, which was sold, and subsequently lost in 1912 when it went down with the Titanic.