Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam. First Illustrated Edition. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Early printing 1894. Published by Houghton Mifflin & Company. Very Good Condition Hardcover. Beautiful cover with gold gilding. Stunning illustrations throughout.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, dubbed “the Astronomer-Poet of Persia”
FitzGerald’s work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages. This book has also heavily influenced numerous illustrated books over the last 130 years since it was released.
