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ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871 - 1951)

ASN0007 Auction Type: Live Floor

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM [FITZGERALD’S VERSION]
With 12 illustrations by Abanindro Nath Tagore
Publisher: The Studio, London, 1910
Dimension: 32 x 24 cms

R 1,00,000 - R 1,25,000

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Original dropover portfolio with 12 colour plates, each individually tipped-in on thick card sheets within frames and covered with tissue guards carrying the quatrain on which each painting is based, printed in red. Together with a 16-page string-bound booklet carrying the 75 quatrains of the first edition [1859] of Edward Fitzgerald’s version.
Portfolio of paper-covered boards with cloth spine and with the titleticket pasted on cover. Lacks ties.
Previous Swiss owners’ ink inscription dated June 1911 on top right corner of booklet title-page.

Notes Notes

This large portfolio is not to be confused with the later smaller versions issued by Leopold Hill in book form in the 1920s.

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ABANINDRANATH TAGORE (1871 - 1951)

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