[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated Full dark brown crushed morocco

Full dark brown crushed morocco by The Hampstead Bindery

Day and their friends at Christmas MDCCCXCV the printing having been done at the University Press in Cambridge Massachusetts

Features the armorial bookplate of Victor Davis Stibolt

An inscription on the ffep reads: "Illustrated by Caroline Martineau - To be given to Maud Dowson on M

and even less so in this type of condition

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated Full dark brown crushed morocco(Translated by Edward Fitzgerald). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Robert Riviere & Son, 1928. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Reprinted from the 1859 Fitzgerald translation. Tissue covered Gilbert James illustrations. Bound in full brown calf with large gilt stamped design to covers, along with large gilt chalice to the front cover, with an inlaid snake twining around the chalice, the snake having been painted in green, black, and red. Five bands to