£18.00
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-Khorasan Edition
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher : Collins
Publication c1982
Format: Hardback
Condition: Blue covers with gilt lettering and design which are in a good condition. It comes with its dust jacket which is also in a good condition with just a couple of marks and slight ripple to the front. Pages are bright and clean with lovely illustrations throughout.
Book measures:24cm x 18.5cm with 224 pages
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There have been many editions of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Some are prose translations which faithfully mirror the thought and imagery of the original, others are in verse of varying degrees of excellence, but none has won such universal favour as that by Edward FitzGerald (1809-83).
This book contains the First, Second, and Fifth Editions in full, together with the textual variants in the Third and Fourth Editions, thus providing the reader with a complete rendition of FitzGerald’s work on The Rubáiyat, over a period of more than twenty-five years.
There are, in addition, a general Introduction by Laurence Housman, an essay on FitzGerald by G. F. Maine, FitzGerald’s essay on Omar, the Notes to the Second Edition, which contains the largest number of quatrains (110), and a Glossary.
The illustrations which so splendidly adorn this edition were specially drawn for this edition by Robert Stewart Sherriffs.
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