[Illuminated | Guild of Handicraft] Life of Omar Al-Khayyami E-List 12 Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby

Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby

Vignette on title page and colophon

The Romaunt of the Rose

of which this is #31

The prominent Portuguese realist’s devotional prose poem

[Illuminated | Guild of Handicraft] Life of Omar Al-Khayyami E-List 12 Illustrated by Millicent SowerbyShirazi, J. K. M. Life Of Omar Al Khayyami. Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis, 1905. Limited to 250 copies on handmade paper, of which this is #102. Hand llluminated title, initials, and decorations in gold and color by W. G. Easton. Bound in white vellum by the Guild of Handicraft (though unsigned), utilizing the blind "Soul is Form" rose stamp on both covers that was employed on the Essex House Press Great Poems series. (The standard binding for this