[Fine Binding | Painted Vellum] Robaiyat de Omar Khayyam E-List 17 Large turn-ins with inlaid bands

Large turn-ins with inlaid bands of green morocco and small red & gilt flowers at corners

the ouside of the small octavo is of imperial aspect

the whole linked by fine dotted tooling and delicate curvilinear stems

A few notations on front fly page regarding illustrations in the text

[Fine Binding | Painted Vellum] Robaiyat de Omar Khayyam E-List 17 Large turn-ins with inlaid bands(Translated by Franz Toussaint). Robaiyat de Omar Khayyam. Paris: H. Piazza, Ldition dArt, 1924. Frontispiece by Paul Zenker in color, with ornamental title, borders, head and tail pieces printed in colors. Issued in the publishers "Ex Oriente Lux" series. Original wrappers bound in at front and rear. Bound in full vellum, the upper cover set with a hand painted blue arabesque panel enclosing with OMAR KHAYYAM lettered within; small painted floral