Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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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by Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans.)
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London: Hodder & Stoughton [124]p, with twenty colour illustrations. Original full vellum, decorated in gilt to spine and upper cover, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, decorative endpapers. Lacks tie, spine lightly rubbed and slightly faded, internally quite bright and clean. With twenty tissue guarded full page illustrations by Dulac as called for. Limited edition of seven hundred and fifty copies signed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
by Fitzgerald, Edward; Illustrated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe
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London: Siegle, Hill & Company, 1910. The Rubaiyat is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, it was first published in English-language translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Since then, its melancholy tone and enigmatic philosophy of mourning the painful brevity… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1919. First Edition. Near Fine. One of 350 specially bound and numbered copies. Publisher's full vellum binding with some mottling and wear. Overall Near Fine with all fifteen of Brangwyn's tipped in illustrations. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase with cloth slipcover. Inscription on the front end paper from Harry D.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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London : Hodder and Stoughton A nice copy in the original dark red gilt decorated cloth binding with 20 beautiful tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Undated but ?1909/1915. The binding has been rebacked to make a very sound copy.The gilt decorated front board has some light fading to top and spine edges and a slight warp at… Read more about this item Item Price
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by FITZGERALD, Edward
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London: Siegle, Hill & Co.,, 1910. Attractive full cloth binding elaborately stamped in gilt with a peacock motif. Spine title in gilt in a floral motif. Poetry, beautifully illustrated with 12 magnificent colour plates and illuminated letters by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe. Unpaginated. 310 x 235 mm (12¼ x 9¼ inches). Text in English. Boards rubbed at corners,… Read more about this item Item Price
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by Fitzgerald, Edward. Introduction By A. C. Benson
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London [1910]: Siegle, Hill. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. Folio. Reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. All color plates and illustrations present including title page. Printed in script in red and black ink. Bound in gray cloth with beautiful gilt peacock design front cover, gilt… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
by Fitzgerald, Edward; [Willy POGANY, illustrator].
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London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1930. Large 4to., stunningly and elaborately bound by Zaehnsdorf in full green morocco, with gilt borders and cornerpieces, spine with five raised bands lettered and lined in gilt; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; with elaborate gilt turn-ins and green watered silk endpapers; with frontis and a further 11 mounted coloured plates; along… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation of Omar Khayyam--Rubaiyat.)
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translation of Omar Khayyam: Rubaiyat; Illustrations by J. Yunge Bateman.)
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New York: A.S. Barnes and Co. 1965. (Small 4to) 35pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations. The covers and dust jacket are speckled and soiled. "Long one of the best known and most widely quoted poems in the English language, Edward Fitzgerald's exquisite paraphrase of the Rubaiyat of the astronomer-poet of Persia… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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London: George Harrap. Fair. 1930. paperback. Publisher's original decorated suede wrappers; rather worn and marked; spine worn; binding very frail, but intact, the suede does shed its colour on your hands, clothes or adjacent books, so needs to be kept in a plastic cover . A number of tipped in colour plates by Willy Pogany (all present),… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884 Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) was an American Symbolist painter. Many illustrators favor an Orientalist interpretation of the Rubáiyát despite the popularity of the quatrains being more a result of their universality than their exotic qualities. in the ten months from May 1883 to March 1884, Vedder completed a series of 54 drawings in pencil, ink, chalk, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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London: Macmillan & Co, 1902. Reissue of the first edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt title to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper. Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam; A Variorum Edition Of Edward Fitzgerald's Rendering Into English Verse Edited by Frederick H. Evans
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)
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London: Privately Printed (Temple Sheen Press), 1914. leather_bound. Full red morocco, front covers in geometric and floral designs. Teg. Fine. 109 pages. 22.5 x 17.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 hand-printed by Arthur K. Sabin on Batchelor hand-made paper. Made with the idea of giving, for the first time collectively, each Stanza in the full text of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (SIGNED)
by Edward Fitzgerald (Omar Khayyam)
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Signed by Pogany twice; on limitation page and to frontispiece. Of this American edition #46 of only 500 copies. Full teal morocco; gilt floral emblem with red inlay to front board as well as gilt particulars to spine. 4 raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Twelve tipped-in color illustrations as well as black and white illustrations throughout. Spine darkened;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
by Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
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Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Hardcover. VG- (Cloth lightly worn at extremities and a few rub marks but tight and fresh with a very few light isolated foxing spots. Top edge gilted.. Vedder, Elihu. Brown cloth with gilt illustration over boards, illustrated end papers and flyleafs. Unpaginated, 77 leaves, b/w illustrations. The well-known collection of Persian… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. leather_bound. Full red levant. Aeg. Fine in matching red slipcase. Rene Bull. 75 pages printed recto only. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Hand bound by Joseph E. Zuffant Jr.,for The Monastery Hill Bindery with his label mounted to inside front free endpaper. Twenty four tipped in color plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrations after… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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Golden Treasury edition. Small octavo. Nicely bound in blue green morocco, a.e.g.; spine with five small flowers; all edges with tiny gilt designs by Morrell London. Fine. 111 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. N/A. Hardcover. vg. Vedder, Elihu. 8vo. 56pp. of full-page plates and text followed by 61pp. of text. Gilt decorated gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Beveled edges. Gilt top-page edge. Head and tail of spine bumped and worn. Corners bumped and rubbed. Decorated endpapers. Double title page. Unopened leaves. The Rubaiyat… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Presented By Willy Pogany)
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Omar Khayyamm and Willy pogany)
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New York; (1909): Thomas Y. Crowell and Co. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 525 copies. The present copy is number 59 and signed by Willy Pogany the illustrator. Based on the first edition text of Edward Fitzgerald and illustrated with 24 full page color illustrations tipped-in, text in oriental style script printed in brown within ornamental borders, decorative… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by FITZGERALD, Edward
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London: George C. Harrap, 1930. Willy Pogany. The great epic Persian erotic love poem illustrated by the masterful Hungarian artist, Willy Pogany. Signed by Pogany, limited edition of 750 copies, the English issue, original etching, a lovely copy. Item Price
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