[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Holland spine with decorated paper-covered

Holland spine with decorated paper-covered boards

such as Alfred Tennyson's Maud (1855)

Riccardi Press border to opening page of text

Title and author labels to second and third compartment of spine

[Fine Binding | Alfred De Sauty] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Extra Illustrated Holland spine with decorated paper-coveredMcCarthy, 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