[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Full-page illustrations and page decorations

Full-page illustrations and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward

of which this is #58

then served as dean and professor of Ophthalmology at the American Medical College

Printed on Alton Mill uncut paper

this volume one of an unspecified number printed on vellum

[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Full-page illustrations and page decorationsMcCarthy, Justin Huntly (translator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: David Nutt, 1889. Limited to 550 copies. Bound by Alfred De Sauty (signed "DE SAUTY" on front turn in) in dark blue morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border and with a large cartouche of intertwining leafy stems and flowers outlined by gouges. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and dated at the