New York; The Heritage Book Club, 1940. 28x21 cm. (23, 1 blank) pp. + 8 mounted colour-plates. Publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards. The boards are slightly rubbed and insignificantly spotted, lower corners are a little bumped. Contents are very fine. With the bookplate of Swedish diplomat Lennart Petri (1914-1996) on front paste-down. First edition of Szyk's Rub�iy�t, and the only one with mounted plates; in later editions the illustrations were printed directly onto the pages. Signed by Szyk on front free endpaper.

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Rub�iy�t. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. The Text of the First Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk.

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1st Edition

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