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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám the astronomer-poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an accompaniment of drawings by Elihu Vedder.

Title
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám the astronomer-poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an accompaniment of drawings by Elihu Vedder.
Author
Omar Khayyam
Publication
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, [c1894]

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Additional Authors
  • Kerney, M. P. (Michael P.)
  • FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883
  • Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923
  • Houghton Mifflin Company publisher.
  • Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
Description
1 p. l., 58 pl. (incl. front.) 61 numb. l.; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
Rubaiyat. English
Alternative Title
Rubaiyat.
Subject
Persian poetry > Translations into English
Genre/Form
  • Translations
  • Blind tooled bindings (Binding) – 1894.
Note
  • Plates contain text with "occasional slight changes" by Vedder; the last six plates contain notes with ornamental border.
  • A reprint of the 4th edition of FitzGerald's version, with notes and life of Omar Khayyām, followed by Michael Kerney's biographical sketch of FitzGerald: 61 numb. leaves at end.
Indexed In (note)
  • Potter, Ambrose G. Rubaiyat bibliography,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
  • committed to retain
Contents
Dedication -- Fly-title page -- Text of third edition with 47 pictorial illustrations -- Pictorial note -- Notes with ornamental borders -- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr (by Edward FitzGerald) -- Biographical sketch of Edward FitzGerald (by M.K.)
LCCN
^^^13022334^
OCLC
  • 2942516
  • SCSB-12152874
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library