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Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America” (Yohannan, p. 202). Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Contemporary ownership inscription on reverse of front free endpaper. Covers slightly bowed but bright and clean, minor hole to edge of front cover, lacking ties, scattered foxing throughout; a very good and bright copy with uncreased plates. ¶ Hughey 21. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America , 1977. £1,500 [158573] Regulations the Establishment and Government of the Royal Military Asylum. London: T. Egerton, 1805 a groundbreaking school for the working class 44 EDUCATION. for First edition of this detailed record of the founding warrant and regulations of this remarkable institution, Britain’s “first large-scale system for the education of working class children” (Cockerill), nearly 70 years before the Elementary Education Act. Instigated by the commander-in-chief, Frederick, duke of York, the RMA offered co-educational facilities for orphans and the children of destitute enlisted men. It is rare, with just two locations worldwide, British Library and Koninklijke Bibliothek.
Octavo (206 × 130 mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, paired gilt rules to spine, black morocco patch label to front board, double gilt fillet panels to boards, dotted roll to board edges, scrolled roll gilt to turn-ins, finely patterned Shell marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, dark blue silk page marker. Four folding specimen forms at the rear, one of them double-sided. Spine just a touch sunned, some light chafing at the extremities, pale toning, else very good indeed. ¶ A. W. Cockerill, Duke of York’s Military School , available online. £1,500 [158331]
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Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 27 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Binding toned and slightly bowed, lacking ties, light soiling to top edge, light browning to free endpapers, occasional foxing and light browning; a very good copy with bright uncreased plates. ¶ Hughey 27a. £2,000 [158271] 43 DULAC, Edmund (illus.); FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909] “the book was a joy and a treasure” Signed limited edition, number 261 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham” ( ODNB ). FitzGerald’s translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of Fitzgerald’s phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing “cult of the Rubáiyát ” found expression in “the
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