Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: George H. Doran, [1928]. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Green cloth with black titles and front decoration; 9.25 inches tall; xxxviii, 41-197 pages printed on a heavy stock; illustrated endpages; Biographical Preface of Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam; 12 Color plates by Edmund Dulac. [Complete] No date; mid-1920s, pre Doubleday merger in 1928.
The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The dust jacket has been trimmed and has older tape repairs and reinforcement and has toned.
Edward Fitzgerald translated these 11th Century Persian Poems in 1859, and they became a sensation in the circle that included Browning, Rosetti and Tennyson.
Omar Khayyam was renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and although his mathematical studies were once hugely influential in the West, he is known to much of the world today as a poet, and his Rubaiyat as the main example of the Arabic verse form composed in quatrains in which the first, second and fourth lines rhyme.
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Price: $45.00
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