GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT
OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubáiyát. translated by Edward Fitzgerald, UNIQUE COPY', WITH A SUITE OF 5 EXTRA ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT loose as issued, and 5 ADDITIONAL PROOF ENGRAVED PLATES BY BUCKLAND WRIGHT (of which 4 signed by the artist) bound in, 8 engraved plates, full vellum gilt by Sangorsi & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., housed together with the portfolio of additional plates in a slipcase [cf. Reid A28], small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938
Footnotes:
This copy has an additional nine engraved plates, all signed by John Buckland Wright, including the loose suite of plates (with slightly more erotic content than those printed in the book) and 4 proof copies (these not called for in the 'Specials'). The edition of 300 copies of the Golden Cockerel Omar Khayyam included 30 specials signed by the collaborators on the colophon, with the suite of 5 extra plates and a collotype facsimile of Fitzgerald's Monk-Latin Ms., and bound in cream morocco. Our copy does not have the facsimile sheets and is not signed on the colophon, but has an additional 5 plates bound in (4 signed), and a full vellum binding.
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Slipcase clean, very slight abrasions at corners

Binding vellum clean, slight darkening on spine. Contents and plates all clean, no discernable marks