Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald (Standard Edition of the Five Versions)
first edition Hardcover
1899 · Boston
by Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
Boston : L.C. Page and Company , 1899. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett. Decorative green cloth binding stamped and gilt, center panel elaborately rendered in Arabic script. Twelve tissue guarded photo-gravures plus frontis, by Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett. Composition and plates by D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press (Boston), Preswork by C. H. Simonds and Co., Colonial Press (Boston). Gilt text block top, deckled/rough cut side and bottom. Cloth faded at spine, edges of rear boards. Pencil underlining present in text.
From the Douglas Tayor Rubaiyat Collection (Inventory #: 2079)
From the Douglas Tayor Rubaiyat Collection (Inventory #: 2079)