[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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