The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac

Published by Boston: Printed at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., for Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886

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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB

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[Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] EARLY IMPRESSION THUS. Folio (32 x 24 cm). Fifty-three integral illustrations in black and white, resembling William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Publisher's dark brown cloth elaborately decorated and titled in gilt to upper cover and spine, dark grey end papers, top edge gilt. Contents clean, text block shaken within case (inside paper joints cracked), bookplate to pastedown (partially removed), front cover remains bright, a few red ink marks to rear cover, spine tips frayed, joints a little cracked at foot. Very good. Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and a poet in Persia, born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the middle of the eleventh century. In 1859 Edward FitzGerald translated a selection of quatrains from Persian to English, and by the end of the nineteenth century the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, with many versions and illustrated editions being published, from pocket books and limp-leather reading copies to deluxe limited volumes. This classic American illustrated edition was first published in 1884.…

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Title
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac
Author
KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-1131), [FITZGERALD, Edward, translator], [VEDDER, Elihu, illustrator]
Publisher
Boston: Printed at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., for Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886
Binding
Hardcover
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