1909 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM By Edward FitzGerald Illus. Willy Pogany Very Good Poetry Hardcover - 1909

George Harrap & Co, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229). Willy Pogany. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1909 , RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM By Edward FitzGerald William Andrew Pogany (born Vilmos András Pogány; August 24, 1882 – July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Hunt Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink. Illustrated By: Willy Pogany William Andrew Pogany (born Vilmos András Pogány; August 24, 1882 – July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Hunt Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: George Harrap & Co, octavo (8vo 6 × 9 152 × 229),Pages ISBN: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rub??iy?t) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". SKU: BTETM0001508 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg