The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer Poet of Persia

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. Hardcover. Edited by William Augustus Brown. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards titled in gilt in Arabic. 159pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear, with spine age toned. A tight, attractive copy of this edition limited to 300 numbered copies (this #87) -- "a reprint of the Second Edition, modified by the insertion of omitted stanzas and by some of the variants of the First, Third, and Fourth Editions...." A lovely copy of this English verse rendering and legitimately scarce.