Rubáiyát Kháyyám Comprising Metrical by Omar Khayyam Fitzgerald Edward (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Green limp leather small hardcover. The spine is very worn and has some leather loss. The hinges are weak inside. Scarce edition. Has a homemade dust jacket on it. We ship fast.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. VG red leather boards with gilt lettering along spine; cover has R. Frank stamped on it in gilt. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. 289 pp. Bibliography. Size 7.5x 5.5" Includes three versions of the Rubaiyat.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reissue. Reissue. Edges lightly rubbed, spine slightly toned. Portions of publisher's slipcase included. 1900 Hard Cover. xlii, 289 pp. Cream leather spine, brown leather boards and spine label, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Woodcut frontispiece. A collection of verse translations by Edward Fitzgerald and E.H. Whinfield, together with the prose version of Justin McCarthy, edited with an introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Also includes: a poem entitled To Omar Khayyam written by Andrew Lang; a brief biography of Khayyam; notes by Edward Fitzgerald on his translations; On Reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind; comparative stanzas; a bibliography of foreign translations, Fitzgerald's English translations, American editions of Fitzgerald's translations, and later English translations. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048?1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam clubs' were formed and there was a 'fin de siecle cult of the Rubaiyat.' FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages.

Condition: Good. First edition thus. A good reference copy of the Rubaiyat in an attractive deco binding. weight: 1.5 lb. Good plus, spine ends worn, ink name to pastedown, inner hinges weak. Portrait frontis of Fitzgerald. 21x14.5x2.7 cm. xxxiii, 244 pp. Publisher's gilt decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt.