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London: George C. Harrap, Nd c1940-50?. Cloth Bds. Very Good in chipped/rubbed/clipped dustwrapper. 8vo. Willy Pogany. dustwrapper Attractive, illustrated Rubaiyat; being the Edward Fitzgerald translation (first version), illustrated throughout with full page colour plates, and ornate page decoration and lettering by Willy Pogany, one of the great book illustrators; decorated green cloth boards, illustrated wraps; wraps are chipped & rubbed, w/ closed tear to spine & rear fold, price clipped, o.w. good (now protected); some foxing & offset to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. vg throughout. This is a later edition of the Pogany illustrated Rubaiyat, and is rather hard to date accurately; early C20th editions had hand-tipped plate illustrations; in this edition illustrations are paginated; still a nice book for collectors of Rubaiyats.