The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1914. Hanscom, Adelaide. Reissue. Small Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2304780
Edges rubbed with beginnings of split to front joint, spots on rear board.
Unpaginated. Translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains"." -- Wikipedia
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