The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, plate 5 (of 8)

 

John Buckland Wright

  1897 - 1954 (biography)

1937 /8 

copper engraving 

8 3/16 x 4 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

proof outside book edition of 30 signed & numbered and editon of 270 

printed in lower margin: Elizabeth Watson Diamond 

Buckland Wright A28 

cream laid 

proof from published state 

Golden Cockerel Press 

16897 

$450.00 

Buckland Wright did a series of 8 copper engravings to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press publication of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, published in a total edition of 300 in 1938, This is a unique proof from the collection of Elizabeth Watson Diamond with her name typeset in the lower margin. Elizabeth and J. Edouard Diamond were Cleveland collectors who collected ex-libis plates by noted printmakers of the 30's. This proof is signed by Wright and may have been reproduced as an ex-libris by Diamond.