[Roycroft | One of 40 Copies] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford

Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford

accented with swirling gouges and fleurons

born at L’Aquila and active primarily in Rome

and soiling to upper edge of textblock

[Roycroft | One of 40 Copies] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated Nine Sonnets Written at OxfordKhayyam, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald (trans). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald; with the Address of John Hay at the Omar Khayyam Club, London. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited to forty copies "specially illumined by hand", of which this is #25. Illuminated throughout in watercolors (see images), and signed with Clara Schlegel's initials on the first page of the Rubaiyat text. Printed in three