Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Second Dulac Edition, following the first of 1909. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's translation, rendered into 100 quatrains and illustrated by 20 tipped-in colour plates each under a captioned guard. Publisher's red cloth with elaborate Persian-style design in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering to spine. With the brown paper dust-jacket featuring a Dulac illustration laid down within a brown square border and stylised title lettering and ornaments, ends of spine rubbed and corner tips chipped. Text on each page framed within green decorative border and plates set within brown patterned frames. Without inscriptions of interior markings. Undated, but about 1915. A near fine copy. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953, along with contemporaries Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Harry Clarke and Warwick Goble was a French-British naturalised book and magazine illustrator, noted for his fantasy drawing, and a leading light of the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter of the 20th century). Among his other illustrated works are The Arabian Nights, Treasure Island, Andersen's Fairy Tales, and works by Shakespeare, Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe.