[Roycroft | One of 40 Copies] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated born at L’Aquila and active

born at L’Aquila and active primarily in Rome

Headbands and initials by F

with "Guest Book" in the second compartment

light blue sky

the whole linked by fine dotted tooling and delicate curvilinear stems

[Roycroft | One of 40 Copies] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illuminated born at L’Aquila and activeKhayyam, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald (trans). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald; with the Address of John Hay at the Omar Khayyam Club, London. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. Limited to forty copies "specially illumined by hand", of which this is #25. Illuminated throughout in watercolors (see images), and signed with Clara Schlegel's initials on the first page of the Rubaiyat text. Printed in three