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1901 1ed Flowers of PERSIAN Poets Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat
1901 1ed Flowers of PERSIAN Poets Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat
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1901 1ed Flowers of PERSIAN Poets Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat Bustan Ferdowsi Iran 2v



Persian poetry became popular amongst English-readers at the end of the 19th-century. Author Nathan Dole collected and edited some of the most popular Persian poems and translated them into English, publishing them in one work under the title Flowers from Persian Poets. This work includes selections from:

The Bustan, by Saadi

collection of anecdotes and accounts of Saadis travels

The Rubaiyat, by Omar Khayyam

The Gulistan, by Sadi

The single most influential work of Persian Prose

Layla and Majnun, by Nazami Ganjavi and Rumi

Rostam and Sohrab from Shahnameh, by Ferdowsi



Item number: #15763

Price: $399



DOLE, Nathan Haskell [edit. & transl.]



Flowers from Persian poets



New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. [1901]. First edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes

Vol. I – [2], xxxiii, [1], 251, [1]

Vol. II – [2], iii, [1], 253-564

Illustrated throughout

Provenance: Stamp – Charles S. Fobes, 1905

Charles S. Fobes (1839-1909) was the president of Westbrooke College in 1862, a liberal arts college in Portland, Maine, founded 1831 as Westbrook Seminary in Westbrook, Maine. It closed in 1996 and merged with the University of New England, which uses its old campus. He was also a member of the Maine Historical Society and The Fraternity Club, a social and literary group.

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Decorative green cloth

Size: ~8.5in X 5.75in (21.5cm x 15cm)



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