[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Drop 1 but circa 1905-1906]

but circa 1905-1906]

As noted in the colophon: "Two hundred and fifty copies of the ‘Book of Ruth’ have been printed for the Reed Pale Press by the De La More Press

"Charles Ernest Pont (6 January 1898 – 28 July 1971) was a French-born Swiss-American artist and Baptist minister

Gilt ruled turn-ins with dots

some rubbing to edges

[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Drop 1 but circa 1905-1906]Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: T. N. Foulis, [no date but circa 1910]. Eight tipped in illustrations by Frank Brangwyn (with tissue guards), including frontis. Bound in brown crushed morocco 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 of brown and green (now faded to light brown) in the remaining