New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. A Very Good Hardcover.

Blue Cloth with blind-stamped blue embossing with git spine titles and a gilt front decoration, the bindings a bit shaken and the text block is square.  Text clean, even toning with occasional foxing mainly on the top of pages.  Moderate shelf handling wear. Over-opened at a few signatures. A Signature on the half-title through Edward Fitzgerald's name.

Very Good / No Dust Jacket. Item #16568

This book of poetry is attributed to Omar Khayyam, a highly respected Persian astronomer and mathematician, who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries. Generically, rubaiyat describes a collection of a specific type of poem, or rubai, that contains stanzas of four quatrains or lines. The rubai often has a rhyming pattern of A-A-B-A.

The Khayyam’sRubaiyat gained interest in the West after the 1859 English translation by Edward FitzGerald, although there are numerous English translations, and the collection has been translated into almost every major language.

Price: $150.00