[Rarebooks] FS: Carolon Press Rubaiyat. Hand-illuminated with watercolor paintings
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Omar Khayyam. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (No place: Privately Printed at the
Carolon Press. 1908). Tall 8vo. (30)pp., each page hand-illuminated with
original watercolor paintings. Special edition limited to 100 numbered copies
privately printed at the Carolon Press, March, 1908. Orig. tan linen over boards,
red & blue printed paper label mounted on front cover. Housed in a custom made
gilt decorated brown morocco solander case. Gift inscription from book
collector Charles Dana Burrage, dated Oct. 24, 1919, on verso of front free endpaper.
$1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
The original artwork is unsigned.
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