Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is in hardcover in very good condition. 1st Edition. The colour illustrations by Gilbert James are vivid and clean. Title page is separate to book block, else all pages are sound, also unfinished. The first of the Envelope Books published by T. N. Foulis. First edition thus. Please get in touch if you’d like to see more images.

Author

Omar Khayyam

£55.00

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Description

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed ‘the Astronomer-Poet of Persia’.

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Additional information

Author

Omar Khayyam

Publisher

Envelope Books

Year

1889

Illustrator

Gilbert James

Translator