Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; with an introduction by A.C. Benson ... ; reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe.
Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131)
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085417
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 6, [39], 16, [23] p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; gilt roll and fillets to form a panel design on boards; gilt stamped cornerpieces: bunches of grapes with inlaid green morocco leaves; gilt tooled title on upper board; five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' and 'Designed by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Original decorated endpapers bound in at end.
Makers and roles
Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131), author Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), translator Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), editor Geddes, Ewan, illustrator Sutcliffe, A, calligrapher Sangorski & Sutcliffe, original artist