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Hardcover. Octavo, unpaginated plates, 61 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Tearing and wear to cloth at head and tail of spine. Mild scuffing to cloth. Rubbing to corners of boards. Mild general wear to edges of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Shelved in Case 0. 1390772. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

[Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] EARLY IMPRESSION THUS. Folio (32 x 24 cm). Fifty-three integral illustrations in black and white, resembling William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Publisher's dark brown cloth elaborately decorated and titled in gilt to upper cover and spine, dark grey end papers, top edge gilt. Contents clean, text block shaken within case (inside paper joints cracked), bookplate to pastedown (partially removed), front cover remains bright, a few red ink marks to rear cover, spine tips frayed, joints a little cracked at foot. Very good. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. In 1859 Edward FitzGerald translated a selection of quatrains from Persian to English, and by the end of the nineteenth century the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, with many versions and illustrated editions being published, from pocket books and limp-leather reading copies to deluxe limited volumes. This classic American illustrated edition was first published in 1884.

Hardcover. First Octavo Edition. 61 text pages. Upon receiving the commission to illustrate Houghton Mifflin's deluxe edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Elihu Vedder moved to Rome and spent eleven months creating illustrations strongly influenced by Greco-Roman art and Persian mythology. French folded pages. Ornamental title page, 56 full-page illustrations by Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process, printed at the Riverside Press, Mass (moderate spotting in the margins throughout). Grapevine endpapers designed by Vedder. The deluxe edition numbered 100 copies and sold out within six days. It was reprinted in octavo for the first time in 1894. Today Vedder's illustrations are considered to be among the finest ever created for the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Slight loss foot of dust wrapper spine. Orig. brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine in worn dust wrapper.

Condizione: Fine. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original brown cloth covers, elaborate gilt design to the front cover, gilt lettering to the spine, top edge gilt, grape vine illustrated end sheets. The first printing was a folio, limited issue in 1884 of 100 copies signed by Vedder; followed by a trade edition in quarto in 1886. There were two issues of this 1894 printing; one in folio and this one in octavo measuring 8½'' x 6¼''. Printed on French-folded pages joined in tandem. Rubáiyát over 23 pages carrying the 101 quatrains of Edward FitzGerald's version enriched with Elihu Vedder's dramatic drawings. Correct first edition of this issue with errata note tipped-in concerning Mr. Vedder's interpolated verse of his own (number 44). Exceptionally Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

"Vedder's 'Rubáiyát' set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and England." In a Superb Early Twentieth Century Inlaid Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe [BINDING]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. FITZGERALD, Edward, Translator and Editor. VEDDER, Elihu, Illustrator. KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston: [Printed at the Riverside Press for] Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. Small quarto (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 209 x 152 mm.). 30 leaves, [1]-45, [2], [47]-61, [1, blank] pp., all printed on French-fold paper. With illustrated title, six pages of notes with decorative frames, frontispiece, and fifty plates illustrating the poem, inset with panels of text, all by Elihu Vedder. Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1910 (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full blue crushed morocco elaborately gilt and inlaid. Covers with wide, heavily stippled gilt frame inlaid with twining grape vines in brown, green, and purple morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt pointille with similar inlaid grape vine weaving through the length of the spine, lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt ruled board edges and wide turn-ins of blue morocco enclosing red silk liners framed by ivory morocco that is inlaid with green and brown, the turn-ins featuring very large corner ornaments of inlaid green grape leaves, red watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt. Joints expertly and invisible repaired. Original black and gold printed gray wrappers designed by Vedder bound in. Engraved bookplate of renowned collector William F. Gable, of Altoona on verso of front endpaper. A fine, fresh copy in an absolutely spectacular binding from the great house of Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Tipped onto the front flyleaf is a one-page autograph letter signed by Elihu Vedder and written to a Boston gallery owner named Doll regarding paintings the artist has and will have for sale. It is dated December 16, 1868, a time when Vedder had returned to America from his home base in Rome to persuade the reluctant (and wealthy) parents of Carrie Rosenkrans to allow him to marry their daughter. Happily, Vedder and Rosenkrans were able to wed; they honeymooned in Italy, which they made their home for the remainder of their lives. A beautifully bound copy of an important illustrated edition of FitzGerald's lush and lilting translation of the celebrated 11th century classic collection of evocative short verses, tinged with a sense of the vanity of all things. A work that appealed strongly to Victorian sensibilities, the "Rubáiyát," first printed anonymously in 1859, became immensely popular and went through a great many editions. Sangorski & Sutcliffe created a number of splendid bindings for copies of the "Rubáiyát," most famously the "Great Omar" that was lost on the Titanic. Here, they have apparently taken inspiration from a quotation in the frontispiece: "Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape / Than sadden after none or bitter Fruit." According to the Smithsonian, which owns the original designs, "from the moment of its publication [in 1884], Elihu Vedder's 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam' achieved unparalleled success. Critics rushed to acclaim it as a masterwork of American art, and Vedder (1836-1923) as the master American artist. Vedder's 'Rubáiyát' set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and England." William F. Gable (1856-1921) founded the Gable's Department Store, in Altoona, PA, opening on March 1, 1884. The first incarnation of the store was a single room. In 1891, Gable built a Victorian Neoclassical style building, in downtown Altoona. It was in this building that the Gable's Department Store became the forerunner of the modern department store. By 1913, Gable's was the most complete department store in the state of Pennsylvania. It had come to be known as "the people's store." The renowned collection of the late William F. Gable, of Altoona, Pennsyvania was sold at auction by the American Art Association, Inc. on January 1st, 1923.