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Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-poet of Persia Author: Omar Khayyam Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 1884 Description: [59] double-fold b&w full-page illustrations by Vedder + 61 pp. of text [23 of which print the poem, 7 pages of Notes, 14 for a brief biography of Omar Khayyam, while 14 provide a biography of Edward Fitzgerald the translator]. Profusely illustrated by Elihu Vedder with an ornamental title page and 58 full-page B&W drawings reproduced by the gray-toned Lewis photo-type/photolithographic process on glossy double-folded paper; gray grape leafy designs on pastedowns and endpapers. (Square 8vo), decorated & gilt-stamped brown cloth, top edge gilt. A bright and handsome copy of the octavo issue of Vedder's masterful interpretation of the Rubaiyat. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth with some rubbing to extremities, a bit of light scuffing to rear board; interior bright; near fine. Item number: 297705