Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia

  • Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893
By Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald [trans.]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Very Good. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Twenty-Second US Edition. 12mo (17 cm); 77,[1]pp. Boards full bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping and brown decoration. All edges red and endsheets dark blue. Board extremities rubbed and bumped with spotted soiling and scuffing to surface. Spine darkened with publisher name at tail faded. Edges scuffed with top stain faded. Former owner bookplate to first paste down. Minor spotting to page edges and repair to page 57 with soiling to pages 56-59. Overall a Very Good copy of Fitzgerald's translation of the classic collection of quatrains.

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