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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward [rendered into English by]; Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Full Vellum. Very Good. N.d, 1909, the first of Dulac's versions of the Rubaiyat. Limited edition, No. 1 of 200 intended for the U.S. market. With 20 tipped-in plates. Folio, 32 by 25 cm, 12.5 by 10 inches. Interior tight and generally clean. Browning of page edges, which were cut unevenly. Browning of card stock leaves upon which plated tipped onto. Vellum has film of soilage all about, and gilt lettering mostly faded on spine, less so on board decoration. Note that the American limited run was NOT signed by Dulac.
Synopsis
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001416
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward [rendered into English by]; Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
- Format/Binding
- Full Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Folio
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- Edges
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- Vellum
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