Limited Deluxe Rubaiyat illustrated by Elihu Vedde
Updated September 24, 2026
| Lot number | 108 |
| Estimate | 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD |
| Auction | Fall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera |
| Date | October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT |
| Auction house | Quinn's Auction Galleries |
| Location | Falls Church, Virginia |
VEDDER, ELIHU, illustrator. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884. Large folio (370 x 430 mm). 57 illustrated leaves mounted to heavy paper, 8 pp of descriptive notes and text. Publisher's full brown illustrated morocco gilt extra, a.e.g., gilt turn ins, silk doublures and endpapers. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 56 of 100 copies signed by the illustrator. The first edition featuring the iconic Vedder illustrations, in a lavish illustrated binding. Condition Margins and versos of mounts foxed throughout, faintly affecting blank margins of illustrated leaves, a little rubbing to binding.
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