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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Edward Fitzgerald [translator].

  • Publisher: B.K. Khanna & Bros.
  • Published: Circa 1948. , 158 Harrison Road, Calcutta.
  • Condition: Very Good
[105 unnumbered pages] in blue type with green vignette illustrations on yellow glossy paper. Ten plates - two in full colour and the rest printed in purple by M.R. Sen at the Calcutta Prototype Company, 6, Chowringhee, Calcutta. Illustrations and decorations by Chunilal Adhikary. With rubber stamp on title page of distributors 'Universal Book Company, Allahabad'. Minuscule marginal damage at head of Quatrain 1. All edges yellow. Green and purple illustrated endpapers. 110 x 70 mm. Original dark maroon and black flexible rexine - faux morocco. Gilt titling on upper cover. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, and to corners. Unrecorded and attractive edition of the Rubaiyat, probably published in small numbers, mostly to have perished with the climate and insects of the Indian sub-continent. Not in WorldCat. See OCLC, 1455733821 for newly designed, larger 1944 hardback edition, same publisher, different page set-up, held at 10 libraries.

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