Hard Cover
1935 · New York
by Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Pogany, Willy. Spine and top edge faded, rear endpaper removed. 1935 Hard Cover. 171, [5] pp. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with 12 mounted color plates (some of which are rather risque), numerous smaller mounted half-tone illustrations, and decorations by Willy Pogany. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048â1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains".
(Inventory #: 2283729)