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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM;
rif. 7932London England: George G. Harrap & Co N.D. Illustrated Reprint in handy format. Limp leather with gilt-stamping. Very Good/None. Willy Pogany. 24mo 5 5/8" x 4 1/8" decorative limp brown suede leather with gilt lettering on spine lapped fore-edges and elaborate Art Nouveau title on front cover 8 full-color lovely illustrations by Willy Pogany tipped in plus Art Nouveau curvacious decorations on other pages; gold-colored ribbon page-marker top edges gilt; tan endpapers 94 pages. Note: neither the translator or illustrator's names are given but the translation is the famous one by Edward Fitzgerald and art work match but are much smaller than the beautiful illustrations that Willy Pogany executed for famous Harrap 1909-edition. Nor is a date of publication given but there is a date written with the gift inscription of 1925. "Willy" Pogany 1882 - 1955 was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale oriented and he used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors oil paintings and especially pen and ink. Edward Fitzgerald's translation remains the most famous memorable and widely used. A LOVELY VERY GIFTABLE Uncommon edition with evocative illustrations by Willy Pogany. Firm clean copy in a clean limp leather binding with bright gilt and virtually no flaking and little shelf wear. Small tear to the leather at the top of its spine. Paper lightly age-toned. The full-color illustrations by Pogany are unfoxed and most are bright though a couple are beginning to fade. Gift inscription penned on the front flyleaf and name at top of front pastedown. All-in-all: A charming little volume. Stone heart for scale & NFS. George G. Harrap & Co hardcover
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