FITZGERALD, Edward [Translator].
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám.
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, LTD , 1928.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Finely Bound by Riviere and Son
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborately tooled in gilt with Persian motifs to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with 12 plates by Gilbert James. Reprinted from Fitzgerald’s translation published in 1859. Printed at the Chiswick Press. In fine condition. Ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper. An exceptional presentation.
Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám.
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