Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909, first trade edition

164 pages including 20 intricate full-colour tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac mounted on decorative borders. With descriptive tissue guards. Text printed on rectos only within a brown decorative border; original publisher's white buckram over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Pictorial end-papers stamped in light olive green with a repeated peacock feather design
11.2 x 9 x 1.3 in (28.5 x 23 x 3.5 cm)

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, 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.

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