The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. James, Gilbert. Small Softcover. Very Good. Item #2305228
Rear wrapper lightly toned, pages lightly foxed.
74 pp. As translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With illustrations by Gilbert James. "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 Khayyám (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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