Item #2331841 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder

Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1886. Vedder, Elihu. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2331841

Early (1886) reprint of the trade edition released the same year (1884) as the scarce limited edition of 100 copies. Boards rubbed with corners slightly exposed, hinges weakening, a few pages faintly foxed.

93 pp. 12 5/8 x 9 5/8. Brown cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Illustrated title page and full-page illustrations by Elihu Vedder, an American painter best known for this work, but who also contributed an illustrated title page for the Dore edition of Poe's The Raven. The Rubaiyat has been released in hundreds of editions with various styles of bindings and illustrations. The 1884 deluxe edition with Vedder's illustrations is arguably one of the best.

Price: $650.00

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