THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
by Fitzgerald, Edward
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.
- Seller
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North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Riccardi Press:, 1908. "Of this edition of the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam in the Eleven Point Riccardi Fount have been printed on handmade Riccardi Paper 1000 copies for Great Britain are for sale. This copy is number 320. 22 pages. 'Rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald, reprinted in the Riccardi PressFount. by Charles T. Jacobi and published for the Medici Society, Ltd. by Philip Lee Warner at VII Grafton St. London W. 1908. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, bound in fine red leather, with 5 raised bands on the spine, gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and along the endside edges of the covers of book, with a red, white, black and tan marbled endpapers. Edges of spine and corners are rubbed, and a previous owner's name had been embossed on the fount blank endpaper.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, oblong.
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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- Bookseller
- PASCALE'S BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019066
- Title
- THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.
- Publisher
- Riccardi Press:
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Riccardi Press, Medici Society, Collectible
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