1980 Scarce in this Bayntun Binding - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam wonderfully Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
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Author: Omar Khayyam. Translated By Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated By Willy Pogany.
Title: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany.
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., no date (circa 1980). ISBN: 0245574581.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: Unpaginated.
Binding: Attractive and near fine red full morocco leather binding with elaborate gilt design on the front cover, finely bound by Bayntun bindery (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. An exquisite binding.
Content: Fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 16 wonderful full-page color illustrations by Willy Pogany.
The book: Beautiful edition in an exquisite Bayntun binding of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Rendered in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with illustrations by Willy Pogany.
The illustrator: William Andrew Pogany (born Vilmos András Pogány; August 24, 1882 – July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink. Painstakingly detailed and confident, Pogany's pen and ink pieces portray the true extent of his talent.