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EDWARD FITZGERALD

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

"A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD—AND THOU"

(FITZGERALD, Edward) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York, 1899.

Comparative edition of this timeless classic, featuring Edward FitzGerald's classic verse translation, followed by the prose translation of Justin Huntly McCarthy, and then by E.H. Whinfield's more modern metrical translation, with an Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. $1100.

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