THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM [FITZGERALD'S VERSION]
With 12 illustrations by Abanindro Nath Tagore
London: The Studio, 1910
Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
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'sversion
Portfolio of paper-covered boards with cloth spine and with the title-ticket pasted on cover.
This large portfolio is not to be confused with the later smaller versions issued by Leopold Hill in book form in the 1920s.
The set of prints contained in original fold-over portfolio.
Size of prints: 7.5 x 5.25 inches
Size of cardboard mounts: 12 x 9.5 inches
Size of portfolio: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
CONDITION: The portfolio lacks ties. Text booklet darkened, some tissue covers of paintings crumpled.
The paintings of Abanindranath Tagore were being printed in England since 1903 in the journal Studio and in 1910 they decided to bring out a portfolio of 12 prints by him based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald. A product of the fin de siecle era of leisure and plenty, the portfolio - the first full-dress work of an Indian artist published in the West - was brought out as a collection of 12 colour plates pasted on thick boards.
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.
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