Sett (Mera K.).- Omar Khayyam, first edition [one of 250 copies], illustrations, decorations and 15 numbered plates by Mera K. Sett, captioned tissue-guards, bookseller's description pasted to front free endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, light browning to endpapers, ownership blind-stamp "The Fitzgerald Collection. Peter J. Willis" to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, light rubbing and marking, t.e.g., others uncut, small folio, Cambridge, Privately Printed & Published by Galloway & Porter, 1914.
⁂ Among the rarest and most idiosyncratic of the early 20th century illustrated Rubaiyats. Sett's illustrations show influence of both Beardsley and Pogany.
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