Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder

  • Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886
By Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]; Elihu Vedder [binding and illus.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Very Good +. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. Early reprint of the Vedder Edition. Quarto. [121] pp. Black and white illustrations throughout with Vedder's rendering printed on one side of leaf only. Bound in brown cloth; beveled edges; cover and spine with elaborate designs in gilt and dark brown; top edge gilt.

Light wear to extremities of boards and binding is sound. Off-setting to endpapers, but pages otherwise unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of the quarto edition with Vedder's illustrations, originally published in folio format in 1884.

[Potter 202].

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