Author: Omar Khayyam; Edward FitzGerald (translator)
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Description: London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1909. Leather. Pocket sized edition of this famous collection of Persian verses, with illustrations by Herbert Cole. Complete with its scarce dust wrapper. Pocket sized edition of the popular collection of Persian poems, the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam. A selection of quatrains translated to English from the original Persian. It became popular by the later half of the nineteenth century, and was published in over one hundred editions, inspiring other translations to English and many other languages. This edition offers the translation by Edward Fitzgerald, which he first proposed in 1859.Featuring illustrations by Herbert Cole. Complete with its scarce dust wrapper, unclipped. In the original publisher's morocco binding. Externally sound with chipping to extremities of spine and boards, boards rubbed and marked. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1910. Dust wrapper unclipped and sound with shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine with minor loss, sunned and lightly darkened to spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Black and white illustrations throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Herbert Cole. Very Good/Very Good.

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