[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Riccardi Press border to opening

Riccardi Press border to opening page of text

Printed on Alton Mill uncut paper

Title and author labels to second and third compartment of spine

such as Alfred Tennyson's Maud (1855)

this volume one of an unspecified number printed on vellum

[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Riccardi Press border to openingMcCarthy, Justin Huntly (translator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: David Nutt, 1889. Limited to 550 copies. Bound by Alfred De Sauty (signed "DE SAUTY" on front turn in) in dark blue morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border and with a large cartouche of intertwining leafy stems and flowers outlined by gouges. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and dated at the