Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Wake! For the sun behind you Eastern height, Has chased the session of the stars from night
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition, Deluxe issue, no 355 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Large 4to. Full white vellum with gilt decorations and lettering. Original silk ties. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Patterned endpapers, decorative page borders and twenty mounted colour plates under captioned tissue guards. A beautiful production, in fine, bright condition.
Loosely inserted is the Leicester Galleries notice promoting the Exhibition of the original watercolours for the book, which were on sale between October 16th and November 20th,1909. The Rubáiyát was originally written in Persian by Omar Khayyam, a poet, mathematician and astronomer. This translation by Edward Fitzgerald made the poem popular with an international audience and the drawings by Edmund Dulac are a perfect foil to the text.
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