In original box
OMAR KHAYYÁM (author). Edward FITZGERALD (translator). Edmund DULAC (illustrator). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse. London; Hodder and Stoughton. [1909]

4to.; original white cloth lavishly blocked in gilt with a pictorial border design of peacocks and elephants to upper board, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, housed in the original protective box similarly decorated in grey to lid and with the paper title label to the side; pp. [162], printed throughout on rectos with quatrains set within brown floral border panels; including decorative titles, coloured frontispiece, and 19 additional beautiful full-colour plates by Dulac, all mounted-at-large within broad printed borders in sepia and pale green, and protected by captioned tissue-guards; a fine and magnificent copy, both externally and internally, nearly as new with only the faintest odd speckle to the upper board and one of two fox-spots to prelims, without ownership marks or inscriptions, contained within the original presentation box which is soiled, rubbed, marked and scuffed but very sturdy and sound and which has kept its contents in near-immaculate condition.

First Dulac edition of this classic Persian love poem attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) and translated into English by the traveller/scholar Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.  One of the most noteworthy illustrated interpretations of the text, and certainly one of the most popular.