Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
London: Grant Richards, 1914. full decorated morocco leather with embossed rose in each corner. 3-1/2"x5-1/8", 93pp., top edge gilt, brown ribbon. -- Some light surface wear and light scratches. Tiny worm? puncture (see photo) to rear outer joint on the rear cover bear the bottom of the spine. -- The leather is a darker, richer color than I was able to portray with editing. -- Overall Condition. Very good. Item #9999
"Franklin Thomas Grant Richards (21 October 1872 – 24 February 1948) was a British publisher and writer. After creating his own publishing firm at the age of just 24 years old] he launched The World's Classics series (still published by Oxford University Press as Oxford World's Classics) and published such as George Bernard Shaw, A.E. Housman, Samuel Butler and James Joyce. He made "a significant impact on the publishing business of the early twentieth century".-wikipedia.
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