Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald (Standard Edition of the Five Versions)
by Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Longmont , Colorado, United States
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About This Item
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
From the Douglas Tayor Rubaiyat Collection
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- Bookseller
- Little Sages Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2079
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald (Translator)
- Illustrator
- Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- L.C. Page and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- illustrated Victorian Persia Orientalism Oriental Quatrain Translations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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