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Front cover peacock binding.

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Title:
Front cover peacock binding.
Collection:
Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
Creator:
Omar Khayyam (Persian poet, 1048-1123)
Date:
1868
1912
Site:
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Location:
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
ID Number:
RMC2011_0524
Catalog Record:
3534074
File Name:
RMC2011_0524.tif
Work Type:
bindings (binding components)
Subject:
Fine bindings--Specimens.
Description:
Binding by F. Sangorski, 1912. Heavily tooled green levant ’peacock’ binding, with inset gem-stones and inlaid doublures. In box.
Source:
Ruba?iya?t of Omar Khayya?m, the astronomer-poet of Persia / rendered into English verse.
Bibliography:
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collecting Program:
Rare Books
Format:
Image
Rights:
Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.

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