This edition was PP-9, but in 1997, it was discovered to be an authorized reprint. This printing was done in 1990 by Pyramid Books in England. The top inch of the image is missing.Image taken from a 1913 woodcut by artist Edmund Sullivan, originally done to illustrate the 26th quatrain of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, this block print underscores the verse "The Flower that once has blown for ever dies."
see also Mouse's Skeleton & Roses Part of the Smithsonian's '20th Century American Posters' book and exhibit.
