![]() ![]() Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. An attractive copy of this nicely produced edition of the Rubáiyát. The contents with a hint of toning to page edges are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a light vertical stain to the fore-edge of the boards and a touch of fading to the spine. ![]() Small contemporary bookseller's label to the rear endpaper. ![]() Attractive engraved bookplate (signed in pencil) for prominent San Francisco book collectors Marjorie & Martin Mitau, depicting people browsing booksellers' stands on the banks of the Seine in Paris, to the front pastedown. Illustrated with decorative wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by Thomas Lowinsky. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full tan calf, the boards ruled in gilt and with decorative borders in blind, the spine with five raised bands and compartments with star devices and titles in gilt. ![]()
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