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Rubaiyat... Illustrated by Ronald Balfour, NUMBER 49 OF 50 COPIES ON JAPON SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, WITH AN ADDITIONAL HAND-COLOURED PLATE, hand-coloured frontispiece heightened in gold, 38 tipped-in plates (6 printed in colours), numerous illustrations and decorations in the text, publisher's buckram, gilt lettered on upper cover and spine, t.e.g., worn, 4to (310 x 215mm.), Constable, 1920
Footnotes:
LIMITED TO ONLY 50 COPIES: the extra-illustrated signed edition of the Rubaiyat by Ronald Balfour (1896-1941), whose eroticised illustrations combine the line of Beardsley with the exoticism of Kay Nielsen and Alastair.
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Contents clean throughout. paper a little toned uniformly throughout. Lower part of inside upper covers light old dampstain. Binding age wear, some rubbing and surface abrasions. Hinges/joints firm