[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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[Fine Binding | The Rowfant Bindery] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: T.N. Foulis, [no date but circa 1910]. Eight tipped in illustrations by Frank Brangwyn (with tissue guards), including frontis. Bound in brown crushed morocco by the Rowfant Bindery, with a narrow frame on the covers of inlaid green and light brown, outlined in carbon. Five bands to spine with title in second compartments and small rectangles of brown and green (now faded to light brown) in the remaining compartments, each gilt-ruled. Gilt-ruled turn-ins, with the original decorative endpapers retained. Top edge gilt. Measures approx. 4.25" x 6.25". Some darkening to the right side of the front cover, and dark spots to top 1/4 inch of the front and rear. Light rubbing to edges. 

After the dissolution of the Club Bindery, Henry Hardy, Leon Maillard, and Gaston Pilon moved to Cleveland in 1909, with the establishment of the short-lived Rowfant Bindery (1909-1913), bank-rolled by Willis Vickery. The binders then were known as the Booklover's Shop bindery (1914-1917), and following a move back to New York, The French Binders (1918-1920s) (Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery, Boss).