Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £220 |
POGANY, Willy (1882-1955, illustrator). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. London: George C. Harrap, 1930. 4to (264 x 200mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece and 11 plates by Willy Pogany, additional etched frontispiece, mounted illustrations and decorations (plates lightly offset onto text). Original turquoise crushed morocco gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). NUMBER 211 OF 750 COPIES FOR ENGLAND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, and further signed in pencil by the artist on the etched frontispiece.