Author: Edward Fitzgerald; Omar Khayyam
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat', beautifully illustrated with tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. This is the first trade edition of the Rubaiyat with Dulac's beautiful illustrations.Illustrated with twenty tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Nine of these plates are detached, but present. Collated, complete.'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his 1859 translation of the Persian quatrains attributed to second century Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's was the first English translation.Fitzgerald's translations, however, are fairly loose; he referred to his work on them as a 'transmogrification&apos. Some therefore considering that his translation of 'Rubaiyat' could be considered as Fitzgerald's own original poetry, only loosely based on Khayyam's quatrains.With a contemporary inscription, dated 1909, to the half title.A delightfully illustrated edition of this popular work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Small losses of cloth and light fraying to back strip head and tail. Tide mark to back strip. Front hinge lightly strained, and a touch tender. Inscription to half title head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd spot or light handling mark. Nine tipped in colour plates detached and loosely inserted. Folds to perimeters of frontispiece. Good Only . Ill.: Edmund Dulac. Good Only .

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