RUBIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. by Fitzgerald, Edward; Lang, Andrew - 1900

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Binding slightly shaken with minor gap precedings and following second gathering. 1907 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 65 pp. Olive cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Binding initialed ED (possibly Edmund Dulac'). Frontispiece portrait of Fitzgerald. Includes To Omar Khayyam by Andrew Lang, an index of first lines, a biographical sketch of Khayyam, Fitzgerald's verse translation, and notes on variations in his renderings. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest… Read More

New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1900. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reissue. Edges lightly rubbed, spine slightly toned. Portions of publisher's slipcase included. 1900 Hard Cover. xlii, 289 pp. Cream leather spine, brown leather boards and spine label, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Woodcut frontispiece. A collection of verse translations by Edward Fitzgerald and E.H. Whinfield, together with the prose version of Justin McCarthy, edited with an introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Also includes: a poem entitled To Omar Khayyam written by Andrew Lang; a brief biography of Khayyam; notes by Edward Fitzgerald on his translations; On Reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a Kentish Rose Garden by Mathilde Blind; comparative stanzas; a bibliography of foreign translations, Fitzgerald's English translations, American editions of Fitzgerald's translations, and later English translations. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward… Read More

New York: Alex Grosset and Company, 1899. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6x4x0. James, Gilbert. Fourth edition. 1899 Hard Cover. 117 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, decorations, and rules. Illustrations by Gilbert James. Includes a biographical preface, a poem entitled To Omar Khayyam by Andrew Lang, a biography of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's fourth rendition of the Rubaiyat, and notes. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains".