[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Other Voyages de Gulliver

Voyages de Gulliver

the interlace surrounding and defining a large central reserve while small fleur-de-lis and arabesque flourishes punctuate the field as accents

Silk page marker

and looped back out and over the cover edges and then back into the inner covers

known for his work in the revival of manuscript illumination at the turn of the twentieth century

[Fine Binding | Riviere & Son] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Other Voyages de Gulliver(Translated by Edward Fitzgerald). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Robert Riviere & Son, 1928. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Reprinted from the 1859 Fitzgerald translation. Tissue covered Gilbert James illustrations. Bound in full brown calf with large gilt stamped design to covers, along with large gilt chalice to the front cover, with an inlaid snake twining around the chalice, the snake having been painted in green, black, and red. Five bands to