£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Iftikhar Azmi and illustrated by Richard Kennedy. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1984. Number IV of 20 specially bound copies, signed by the translator and illustrator, with the illustrations hand-coloured and including one of the original line-blocks, folio, original orange Nigerian goatskin lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative marbled endpapers, hand-coloured illustrations throughout (many full-page), original metal line-block depicting two jugs laid into bespoke velvet-lined cloth chemise as issued, the book and chemise housed together in original cloth solander box with orange goatskin spine-label (label scuffed; a hint of sunning along edges of box's front panel)
There were additionally 100 standard copies bound in quarter vellum, and six copies in a deluxe onlay binding also with hand-coloured illustrations and including an original line-block.