florence lundborg illustrations (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Squared octavo in pictorial cloth binding. Contains 12 color plates. Condition: top of spine slightly frayed; minor wear to binding with corners slightly bumped; rear inner hinge splitting but holding; some overall wear but otherwise a good copy. Pages: xiii, 172.

First edition thus Florence Lundborg illustrated hard back binding in publisher's original dark brown cloth covers, decorative dark grey over-printed design of a tree to the front cover, gilt title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt, black bird silhouette and brown end sheets. 8vo. 8½'' x 6½''. Produced by John Wilson and Son's University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts and printed on French-folded pages joined in tandem, now divided. Rubáiyát over unnumbered pages carrying the 101 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with lovely illustrations around the quatrains by Florence Lundborg, all of the other leaves have an elaborate border. Ink name dated 1944 to the second front end sheet, light rubbing to the corners and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.