[Vellucent Panel] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Roycrofters Bound in brown paper wrappers

Bound in brown paper wrappers

Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society

An inner border is made up heavily tooled vines in gilt

Title vignette with red background

and the second a facsimile of a pencil sketch of Dickens

[Vellucent Panel] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Roycrofters Bound in brown paper wrappersFitzgerald, Edward, translator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Macmillan & Co., 1909. Bound in red morocco with front cover featuring a central curvilinear gilt decoration, accented with flowers in each corner, surrounding a small vellucent panel in watercolor. Gilt lettering to spine. Though unsigned, almost assuredly done by the bindery Cedric Chivers, given the technique on display. Pink mottled endpapers. Measures approx. 3. 5" x 4. 5". Light