1909 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

This is the first trade edition of the Rubaiyat with Dulac's beautiful illustrations.

Illustrated with twenty tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Nine of these plates are detached, but present. Collated, complete.

'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his 1859 translation of the Persian quatrains attributed to second century Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam. Fitzgerald's was the first English translation.

Fitzgerald's translations, however, are fairly loose; he referred to his work on them as a 'transmogrification'. Some therefore considering that his translation of 'Rubaiyat' could be considered as Fitzgerald's own original poetry, only loosely based on Khayyam's quatrains.

With a contemporary inscription, dated 1909, to the half title.

A delightfully illustrated edition of this popular work.