$185
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , trans. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), illus. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), with an Autograph Letter Signed by Dulac, 18 September 1926. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d. after the second edition]. Small folio, illustrated with twenty color plates by Dulac, each tipped onto a sheet with a printed border and beneath a tissue guard identifying the verse; the letter on the letterhead of the Grand Hotel Des Iles Borromees in Stresa, Italy, "Dear Sir, The Studio Magazine have forwarded to me your letter concerning my picture of "Adam & Eve." This is at present my property & it is for sale at the price of £650. Please address any communications to my London address: 117 Ladbroke Road, Holland Park W11. There I will be at the end of next week, and oblige. Yours very truly, Edmund Dulac"; bound in contemporary half red morocco, rubbing to extremities, joints dry, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
