WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Harrap, 1930.
First edition with these Pogany illustrations. Deluxe edition, number 648 of 750 copies signed by the artist on both the colophon and the original etching. Bound in publisher's full turquoise leather binding with gilt lettering and coloured vignette to upper cover. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Housed in original publisher's box. Twelve beautiful tipped in colour plates, small etchings and vignettes to text pages. In addition there is a signed etching by Pogany bound in opposite the title page. A near fine copy of this sumptuous book, which has a small patch of discolouration to the lower edge, and one or two slight turns to the plate mounts. The original box in near fine condition.
Having illustrated the poem in 1909 Pogany revisited Omar Khayyam's verse in 1930 with a completely new set of illustrations, commenting "My last Omar pictures... are quite different from the Omar Khayyam I did in London years ago. But I think they are just as true to the Oriental spirit. I have Westernized and modernized Omar more, but perhaps I have interpreted him more nearly to present day readers."
Stock ID: 45648
