Balfour, Ronald [illustrator]

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM [SIGNED]

London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. Limited Edition, #100/100. Quarto, unpaginated; G; bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt 'Omar' to spine and front board; rear board with some mild rippling to cloth, some mild staining and rubbing to boards; top edge gilt; cracking to gutter at signature M, with first half of the text block beginning to separate from spine; Bookplate of J W Wadsworth to the front pastedown;

with all 38 tipped in plates, six of which are in full color, the remainder largely black and white, although some have small splashes of color; numerous line drawings throughout;

Limited Edition, #100/100 signed by Balfour.;

shelved case 14.

1339725

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $2,000

NOTES

Very little is known about Balfour, with this being the first of only two works he illustrated.