Author: KHAYYAM, OMAR; EDWARD FITZGERALD TRANSLATION; EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATIONS
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Illustrated by Edmund Dulac)
Description: Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co, Inc, 1952. Hardcover. The famous grouping of love poems known as the Rubaiyat, were ".attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed the Astronomer-Poet of Persia" (per Wikipedia). With six color plates bearing the illustrations of Edmund Dulac; translated into English by Edward FitzGerald. Includes biographical information on Kyayyam and FitzGerald. --- In full off-white cloth-covered boards with floral decorations in green, red and gilt to cover and spine; gilt titling on red spine block; red topstain. Jacket with similar decorations as the book itself. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper and inked gift inscription to its verso, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair-only, price-clipped dust jacket with plenty of tears and chips but remaining mostly intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall ; 191 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Illustrated Classics
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Illustrated by Edmund Dulac)
Description: Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co, Inc, 1952. Hardcover. The famous grouping of love poems known as the Rubaiyat, were ".attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed the Astronomer-Poet of Persia" (per Wikipedia). With six color plates bearing the illustrations of Edmund Dulac; translated into English by Edward FitzGerald. Includes biographical information on Kyayyam and FitzGerald. --- In full off-white cloth-covered boards with floral decorations in green, red and gilt to cover and spine; gilt titling on red spine block; red topstain. Jacket with similar decorations as the book itself. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper and inked gift inscription to its verso, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Fair-only, price-clipped dust jacket with plenty of tears and chips but remaining mostly intact and in new removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall ; 191 pages. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Illustrated Classics
Price: US$ 21.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88524
- Book number: 88524