The Rubaiyat courtesy of Dick Blacher

Book courtesy of Dick Blacher. Pictures and description courtesy of Paul Jackson.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Illumined by Anna Knights, 1900
Binding by Louis Kinder

#34 of 40 Copies

 This book measures 8 5/8" x 5 5/8" and has 51 pages. 1000 copies were printed on Boxmoor, hand illumined and bound in suede. The McKenna bibliography references Lane's book and states forty nine copies were printed on Japan Vellum and specially bound. As shown above, it is an edition of 40, rather than the 49 stated by McKenna and Lane. The text is in calligraphy. McKenna credits it to Sam Warner and states that the calligraphy was probably transferred to letter press for the run.
 
The edition 40 bound in ooze calf (suede) sold for $10.00 in the 1900 catalog. No mention is made of the full Levant edition. The 1901 catalog lists a Deluxe edition Rubaiyat bound by Louis Kinder at $25.00. It further states there is only one available.

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