The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
1909 Adam and Charles Black Gilbert James Edition
This 1909 edition from Adam and Charles Black is lovely. The cover is solid and ornate, the pages have a fantastic weight and color to them, the artwork of Gilbert James is sublime, and the type is spot on. Amazing condition for its age. I could see this being sold now. And I’d buy it!
There are quotes from the quatrains with art accompanying them sporadically throughout the book.
Update 09/2022: Updated the layout, tweaked copy, and added more pictures.
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black (Soho Square, London)
Press: R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh
Year: 1909
Artist: Gilbert James
Introduction(s) by: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (Lecturer in Persian at University of Cambridge)
The Book Itself
Blank pages have a decoration on them, the same as what features next to the poetry itself.
The Poetry
The Illustrations
