Thomas Moore — Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

London, Griffith, Farran and Co, c1817. Leather. An uncommon vignette edition of Thomas Moore's romantic poem, smartly bound in half calf by Palmer Howe. The vignette edition of this work.Bound in signed half calf by Palmer Howe and Co, with marbled boards and decorative gilt to the spine.'Lalla Rookh' is an Oriental chivalric romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore, centring on the fictional daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. This edition is decorated beautifully throughout with one hundred new illustrations by American artist Thomas McIlvaine. Bound in signed half calf by Palmer Howe and Co. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities and slight cracking to the joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spots to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Thomas McIlvaine. Very Good .