MOSHER FACSIMILE OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, HANDSOMELY BOUND
(FITZGERALD, Edward, translator). KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Portland, Maine, 1902.
First facsimile reprint of Edward Fitzgerald's 1859 first edition in English of one of the most famous poems of world literature, a masterpiece of English translation, number 132 of only 200 copies printed on Van Gelder paper and with frontispiece illustration from an etching by Fitzgerald's friend, Edwin Edwards, finely bound in full morocco-gilt. $1450.
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