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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presented by Willy Pogany
by Pogany, Willy (illustrator)
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1910. First American edition. Publisher's tan buckram over pictorial paper boards, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, pictorial endpapers. 128 unnumbered pp. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates, including frontispiece, all mounted onto heavy stock card. A few of the tipped-in color plates have a light crease on the lower corner and a couple of the heavy card mounts have been neatly repaired with archival tape. Otherwise this is a very Fine copy in the original brown paper dust jacket decoratively printed in dark brown. Housed in a cloth slipcase. The card mounts in this edition are notoriously fragile.
"Had Omar Khayyam, the old tentmaker, visioned the beauty of his verses centuries later in Western dress, as
embroidered by a Hungarian artist, he might have had a new conception of the meaning of immortality. For Pogany,
the Hungarian, had made Omar, the Persian, live again" (Crowell). Willy Pogany had previously illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909, but these later illustrations are quite a different interpretation, more westernized and modernized than the earlier ones.
"Had Omar Khayyam, the old tentmaker, visioned the beauty of his verses centuries later in Western dress, as
embroidered by a Hungarian artist, he might have had a new conception of the meaning of immortality. For Pogany,
the Hungarian, had made Omar, the Persian, live again" (Crowell). Willy Pogany had previously illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909, but these later illustrations are quite a different interpretation, more westernized and modernized than the earlier ones.
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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3693
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presented by Willy Pogany
- Author
- Pogany, Willy (illustrator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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