Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First Edition Thus. 4to. 108pp. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. 20 striking pochoir colored Art Deco style illustrations by English illustrator Anne Harriet Fish, known as "Fish", with tissue guards (including frontispiece); initial capitals in orange & black. Letterpress by the Curwen Press, plates by Geo. Gibbons. Blue gilt lettered cloth spine over blue-grey paper boards; illustrated endpapers. A very good copy (corners starting; upper corners lightly bumped; light wear to extremities; slight darkening to boards). Internally clean; the plates are bright. Item #14041
Annie Fish (1890 – 1964) was a British cartoonist and illustrator. Her illustration of "Eve" in The Tatler spawned films, theatre and books. In total, Fish contributed to American Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Sketch, Eve, Punch, and Tatler. In her nearly 15-year career at Condé Nast, she produced 30 covers and hundreds of illustrations depicting modern society, often cynically.Her work was compared to Aubrey Beardsley although Fish noted that she did not see his work until after the comparison had been made.
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