LOT 3126
21st July 2021
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LOT 3126
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS (publisher). - Omar KHAYYAM. The Rubaiyat… Edward Fitzgerald's Translation Reprinted from the First Edition. [London:] The Golden Cockerel Press, 1958. Limited edition, this being number 87 of 200 copies, small folio (312 x 186mm.) Title vignette and engraved illustration by J. Yunge Bateman. (Small closed tear to frontispiece.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, glassine dust-wrapper (chipping, small tears). Note: contains a 'Compliments' note from Christopher Sandford, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel at this time. The recipient was William Russell Flint who writes in pencil on the front-free endpaper 'Received 27.8.58 with Christopher Sandford's compliments/ the illustrations are just laborious vulgarities, WRF'. Flint has also written 'Illustrations vulgar beyond words!' on the compliment slip itself. Provenance: William Russell Flint (initials inscribed on front-free endpaper, from the family by descent).
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