TWO VERSIONS OF THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

a)
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer Poet of Persia, London: Leopold B. Hill, 1859

pp. 63, printed in red and black with 6 colour plates and a frontispiece from drawings by Abanindranath Tagore; original pictorial cloth board with gold lettering and design on front and at the spine
9.4 x 6.8 x 0.5 in (24 x 17.5 x 1.5 cm)

b)
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Filtzgerald version), Allahabad: The Indian Press Limited, 1930

Sixteen-page ribbon-bound booklet of Khayyam's quatrains and twelve colour plates done by Asit Kumar Haldar tipped-in on individual thick cardboard sheets with tissue guards bearing the relevant quatrain in red; original decorative purpose-built cardboard fold over box with wooden toggles

Plates: 10.5 x 6.5 in (26.6 x 16.5 cm)
Cardboard mounts: 14.5 x 10 in (36.8 x 25 cm)
Box: 15 x 10.5 in (38.1 x 26.6 cm)
Booklet: 13.5 x 8.5 in (34.2 x 21.5 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE