1898 - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - *GORGEOUS BAYNTUN FINE LEATHER BINDING*

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***SPECTACULARLY BOUND IN FINE FULL LEATHER BY WORLD RENOWNED BINDER, BAYNTUN-RIVIERE***


Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered Into English Verse.


Published in 1898 by Macmillan, a reprint edition. 96 pages of text with 16 pages of notes comparing 5th to the 4th edition. Octavo. 7.75” x 5.5”


Bound by legendary George Bayntun of Bath England’s Bayntun-Riviere Bindery in exquisitely fine, modern brown full calf leather with two-line gilt panel covers (double fillets) , five gilded raised spine bands with tooled gilt decoration in five compartments and a gilt-lettered leather spine label in compartment two. All edges gilded by hand in 23.5-karat gold leaf. The head and tail of book and interior leather borders tooled with decorative gilt scrollwork (gilt inner dentelles). Handmade marbled endpapers. A luxurious copy for collectors of fine books!


OVERALL CONDITION: VERY GOOD+


Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". The first American edition was published in 1878. Although commercially unsuccessful at first,


FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".


ABOUT THE BINDER:


George Bayntun is one of the world's most famous bookshops and home to the Bayntun-Riviere bindery, which dates back to 1829. Robert Riviere founded his bindery in Bath in 1829, and George Bayntun followed his example in 1894. Bayntun-Riviere is now the last of the great Victorian trade binderies still in family ownership and prides itself on continuing to bind entirely by hand.


The bindery has the largest collection of hand tools and blocks in the world (over 15,000) - some dating back to the eighteenth century and all still usable. They insist on binding in the traditional manner, using the highest quality materials. The page edges of all of their bindings are gilded by hand using 23.5 karat gold and the bindery has a range of over 40 colours of premium quality goat and calf skins, and a vast selection of hand-marbled papers.


***As one could imagine, having one’s books bound or rebound by Bayntun-Riviere is very expensive but results in the highest quality finish and craftsmanship in the world of modern book collecting.***


CONDITION DETAILS:


The book is in Very Good+ condition - light rubbing to panels and edges, rubbing to spine compartments and bands, lightly rubbed corners. A few blemishes to top edge gilt. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. The interior is mostly clean with bright pages and the occasional spot of foxing or small stain.

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  • Binding: Fine Binding
  • Place of Publication: New York
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
  • Author: Omar Khayyam
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Topic: Classics
  • Subject: Literature & Fiction
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Year Printed: 1898

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