Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Fourth Edition, with Notes, Together with a Tribute in Quatrain by Andrew Lang, and a Brief Biography of Both Poet and Translator

New York: Alex Grosset and Company, 1899. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x4x0. James, Gilbert. Fourth edition. 1899 Hard Cover. 117 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, decorations, and rules. Illustrations by Gilbert James. Includes a biographical preface, a poem entitled To Omar Khayyam by Andrew Lang, a biography of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's fourth rendition of the Rubaiyat, and notes. "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 (1048–1123), (truncated) 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 #: 2331914)