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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes
by Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward; Untermeyer, Louis
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1947. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Sayah, Mahmoud. Lacks slipcase. 1947 Hard Cover. xxii, 149 pp. 8vo. Decorated black and red cloth, gilt titles, illustrated endpapers. Beautiful color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, decorative margins. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia". Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous 'Omar Khayyam clubs' were formed and there was a 'fin de siecle cult of the Rubaiyat.' FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages.
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- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes
- Author
- Khayyam, Omar; Fitzgerald, Edward; Untermeyer, Louis
- Illustrator
- Sayah, Mahmoud
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reissue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 1.19 lbs
- Keywords
- CLASSICS LITERATURE LITERARY RELIGION RELIGIOUS SPIRITUAL WRITINGS SPIRITUALITY RUBAIYAT OMAR KHAYYAM ENGLISH VERSE POETRY POEMS POETIC LYRICAL POETS PERSIAN PERSIA MATHEMATICIAN ASTRONOMER
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Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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