Author: OMAR KHAYYAM
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar khayyam
Description: London : George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1910(?).. The illustrations and decorations in this edition are by Willy Pogany. Printed in Great Britain at the Ballantyne Press by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Colchester, London & Eton. 92 + 4 p., tipped-in b/w plates, 17 x 12 cm. HARDCOVER: (Original leather hardcover with stamped Jugendstil title and decorations of leaves and grapes. Edges of cover worn. Contents VERY GOOD) ¶ Of interest for the OMAR KHAYYAM collector! It contains the quatrains of the Rubaiyat, in the English translations of FitzGerald.. Origin is an enigma. Other early editions of Harrap are of the thirties, but those have colored plates. This copy has tipped-in black-white plates..The name of FitzGerald is mentioned in the Preface but not on the title page.

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