FitzGerald, Edward. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Roycroft, East Aurora, 1899 The First edition, limited to 920 copies, numbered and signed by Elbert Hubbard. Oblong 8vo., limp suede with embossed design, red silk endpapers, 67pp + preliminaries and colophon, hand colored decorations and initials throughout. The suede with a tear about 1 1/2 inches long at the top of the spine, somewhat faded, and with some edgewear; the internals Fine and uncut, but the sewing quite fragile; housed in a cloth clamshell box on which the embossed illustration of the front cover has been reproduced as a label.
