"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", Translated by Edward FitzGerald, published by by Barse & Hopkins, New York. undated, no copyright entry, late 1910s. The pencil inscription on the first blank page is dated 1921.

Heavy paper covers [stained], 6" x 8.1/2"; 55 numbered pages containing complete all 101 quatrains and Endnotes, 4 blanks, high quality heavy paper, all pages are decorated [see photos], a little wear, two pages are stained by the dry flowers [see photo], good/ very good condition.

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia", was famous during his lifetime not as a poet but as an astronomer and mathematician. The earliest reference to his having written poetry is found in his biography by al-Isfahani, written 43 years after his death. These verses lay in obscurity until 1859, when FitzGerald published a free adaption of this Persian poetry. As a result, The Rubaiyat became one of the best-known and most often quoted English classics.

"Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language. With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time.

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