Author:  Fitzgerald, Edward (translator).

Publisher: London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis.

Format: Softcover 16mo in stiff card wrappers and pasted-on image, 5 colour plates as well as title page, unpaginated [30pp], 16.7 x 9.1cm.

With colour illustrations by Gilbert James (English, 1886–1926) and the original “Envelope Book Wrapper for sending by Post” glued in at rear.

It is noted inside that “This edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam…is the first of the envelope books published by T.N. Foulis.”

In 1907 T. N. Foulis launched a gift booklet series of poetry known as Envelope Books. “They were sold in wrappers which could be folded into an envelope which could then be sent by post.” Ref: Wiki.

Minor soiling to wrappers, slight foxing to edges and throughout.