Rubáiyát [...] rendered into English verse.

16mo: [4]-111 pp.

Olive green morocco signed Guild of Women-Binders, gilt and mosaic floral decoration on the boards, flat spine with the same decoration, doublures in Japanese paper tinted and decorated with gilt little tools representing a sunset, framed with a large gilt and mosaic decoration as on the cover, ivory Japanese endpapers boarded with a gilt fillet, a.e.g. (sl. faded spine, some dark stains on the boards). Under mod. paper case.

Nice binding probably made by Constance Karslake (pen-and-ink initials "C.K." at the bottom right of each doublure), member of the "Guild of Women Binders" fonunded in 1898 by her father, the bookseller Frank Karslake.
Ref. Tidcombe, M. - Women bookbinders 1880-1920. New Castle, 1996, pp. 115-130.
Joined: Arnold, Edwin - The light of Asia or The great renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana) being the life and teaching of Gautama prince of India and Founder of Buddhism [...]. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1902. In-12. Polished green calf signed Bumpus Ltd. Binders, Oxford St. W., fillets frame and gilt tool in the corners on the boards, gold-tooled spine on raised bands, a.e.g. (faded spine, sl. rubbed boards, margin. offsetting on the endpapers). Under mod. paper case. 57th ed. (1st ed.: 1879) of this famous book which popularized Buddhism, by the English poet and journalist Arnold (1832-1904).