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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward (trans)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Collins, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robert Stewart Sherrifs. Fine in near fine card slip case, lightly rubbed to edges otherwise fine. 'Faux' leather binding with inlaid gilt and red titles to front and spine, gilt edges to text block and internally very clean and bright. Edited by George F Maine and an introduction by Laurence Housman. With 12 superb offset colour illustrations by Robert Stewart Sherrifs. Contains the original version of 1859 along with the second edition of 1868 and fifth edition of 1889. With an index of the variations in texts and notes to the second edition to the rear. A truly superb edition of this classic work. Approx 7" x 9.5
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Andrew James Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002637
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward (trans)
- Illustrator
- Robert Stewart Sherrifs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Collins
- Date Published
- 1971
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated Sherrifs collins slip case Ancient, Classical & Medieval", Asian, "English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh", Inspirational & Religious
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
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- Gilt
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