THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NISHAPUR TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN INTO ENGLISH VERSES, INCLUDING QUATRAINS NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME SO RENDERED

Worcester, Mass: Privately printed, 1906. Large octavo. Cloth, printed paper spine label. Portrait, facsimile. The white cloth is a bit soiled, top edge dusty, otherwise very good. First edition, ordinary issue on paper. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator to DIAL editor, Scofield Thayer, with the latter's bookplate. Thompson was a noted Worcester literary figure, translator and collector/publisher of miniature books. That he and Thayer would have been acquainted is not surprising. (Inventory #: WRCLIT84471)