Author: OMAR KHAYYÁM - EDWARD FITZGERALD (TRANSLATOR),
Title: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Satronimer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into Englis by Edward Fitzgerald. Reprinted after the first edition.
Description: London-New York, Ernest Lister-E.P. Dutton, [circa], 1905. Small 8°., originalpubl. cloth with covertitle and a large coloured illustration, printed within a decorative border, gilded and illustrated spine, all edges gilded. 147pp. Coloured illuminated ti.-p.colured vignette on recto of first blank, captioned coloured frontispiece, many coloured plates and small text-ills all in Persian miniature painting style by T. Heath.Robinson. Contents printed within a black ornamental border. Poems by the famous Persian Astrologer-poet Omar Kháiyyám rendered into english, preceded by a concise biographical note. A very chaming little volume in original attractive publ. cloth. Fine copy. ((spine and outer rims of both covers a bit sunned, private inscription on f.e.p.).

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