Author: Dulac, Edmund. (Illustrator).
Title: RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
Description: Hodder and Stoughton, N.d. c.[1909]. 4to. Tipped in colour frontis., dec. brown lettered title page, 19 tipped in colour plates, plates and text enclosed in dec. border. Half title browned, some light marginal browning and sporadic spotting, e.ps. very lightly browned, original gilt lettered maroon cloth with dec. gilt border to upper board depicting peacock and elephant design, minor soiling and rubbing, edges of boards faded, corners and top edge of lower board sl. bumped, spine browned and chipped with wear to head and upper joint, 2 horizontal splits across spine. ¶ With the signature of ‘Lyn Kramer’ in pencil. Lyn Kramer (1942-2024). Sculptor who worked with the famous taxidermy firm of Rowland Ward. In 1969 she joined the staff of Madame Tussaud's. Her work there included the portraits of Agatha Christie, Richard Nixon, The Shah of Iran, and Leonid Brezhnev. Latterly she has worked mainly in bronze on major figures in the World of Art and Literature, including Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Benedict Kiely and Derek Mahon.

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