Description: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam published by Dodd Mead & Co, New York. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with illustrations by Willy Pogány. Undated. Circa 1910. This beautiful hardcover edition in decorated Art Nouveau binding comes in green/aqua/blue cloth designed by Pogany. Pages are printed in a calligraphic font decorated and illustrated by Willy Pogany with beautiful color plates. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a lyric poem in quatrains (four-line stanzas). Translated by Edward Fitzgerald from a manuscript of Persian verse attributed to Omar Khayyam, a 12th-century Persian mathematician and philosopher, “The Rubaiyat” contains pithy observations on complex subjects such as love, death, and the existence of God and an afterlife. CONDITION: This book is in acceptable condition. Pages are attached but the cover is scuffed and loose. Bumped cover corners, pages have turned yellow from age. Foxing to paper commensurate with age. Small tears on the top center of the last 14 pages. The endpaper at the front of the book have some notes written in pen. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.
Price: 95 USD
Location: Claremont, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Book Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Signed: No
Publisher: Dodd Mead & Co.
Subject: Historical & Mythological, Middle Eastern Poetry, Persian poetry
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1910
Language: English
Illustrator: Willy Pogany
Special Attributes: Illustrated with beautiful tipped-in color plates, Antique book
Author: Omar Khayyam
Personalized: No
Topic: love, death, God, afterlife, Divinity
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subjects: philosophy, art
Character Family: Art Nouveau
