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[Fitzgerald, Edward]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872, pp. xxiv 36, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, bookplate, front inner hinge partly cracked, contemporary quarter roan, 4to, together with: ibid. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Macmillan and Co., 1890, original japon gilt, 8vo, Watson (William). Lachrymae Musarum, 1st edition, London: for private distribution, 1892, printed on japon, 18 pp., wood-engraved frontispiece, portrait of Tennyson, original japon, slightly soiled, 8vo, number 74 of 100 copies only, Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892, 5 steel-engraved portraits (mounted), unopened, original cream cloth, soiled, upper fore corner of front board bumped, large 8vo, number 135 of 500 large-paper copies, Masefield (John). Right Royal, London: William Heinemann, 1920, partly unopened, original quarter japon, 8vo, number 450 of copies, and 11 others similar, all late-19th and early-20th century English literature (mainly poetry, some drama), limited editions or finely bound, including Bullen, More Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, 1888 (number 59 of 250 copies), Bertram Dobell, Rosemary and Pansies, 1901 (not for sale: one of 75 copies), 3 other Masefield limited editions, and similar (Qty: 16)