Lot 80
Fitzgerald (Edward, translator) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia,, second edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
Hammer Price: £850
Description
Fitzgerald (Edward, translator) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, second edition, [one of 500 copies], bookplates to endpaper and pastedown, brown crushed morocco gilt by Proudfoot, neat retouching to spine tips and corners, an attractive copy, t.e.g., small 4to, Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
⁂ Fitzgerald substantially revised his translation four times, the second edition, at 110 quatrains was the longest of the four.
Description
Fitzgerald (Edward, translator) Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, second edition, [one of 500 copies], bookplates to endpaper and pastedown, brown crushed morocco gilt by Proudfoot, neat retouching to spine tips and corners, an attractive copy, t.e.g., small 4to, Bernard Quaritch, 1868.
⁂ Fitzgerald substantially revised his translation four times, the second edition, at 110 quatrains was the longest of the four.
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