1910 Beautiful Rowfant Binding - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam wonderfully Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn.

 

(Description) 

Author: Omar Khayyam. Illustrated By Frank Brangwyn.
Title: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. 
Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis, no date. (circa 1910). First thus.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 6 " X 4 ".
Pages: 59 pages.
Binding: Attractive, beautiful, and very good, near fine, brown morocco leather binding by the Rowfant Bindery, with a narrow frame on the covers of inlaid green and light brown, outlined in carbon. Five bands to spine with title in second compartments and small rectangles in the remaining compartments, each gilt-ruled. Gilt-ruled turn-ins, with the original decorative endpapers retained (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt. A unique exquisite binding for a wonderful book!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the eight wonderful tipped-in illustrations by Frank Brangwyn (with tissue guards), including the beautiful frontispiece.

The book: Beautiful edition in an exquisite Rowfant binding of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám illustrated By Frank Brangwyn.

The illustrator: Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was a Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator, and designer.
Brangwyn was an artistic jack-of-all-trades. As well as paintings and drawings, he produced designs for stained glass, furniture, ceramics, glass tableware, buildings and interiors, was a lithographer and woodcutter and was a book illustrator. It has been estimated that during his lifetime Brangwyn produced over 12,000 works. His mural commissions would cover over 22,000 sq ft (2,000 m2) of canvas, he painted over 1,000 oils, over 660 mixed media works (watercolours, gouache), over 500 etchings, about 400 wood-engravings and woodcuts, 280 lithographs, 40 architectural and interior designs, 230 designs for items of furniture and 20 stained glass panels and windows.