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Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm Rendered into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald. Standard Edition of the five versions.
Boston,L.C.Page and Company,1899 ; in-8 pleine percaline de l'éditeur vert olive avec un large décor doré et à froid occupant le 1er plat et le dos, titre doré; 282pp.,1f. Titre-frontispice en couleurs, portrait de l'auteur en frontispice en héliogravure et 12 photogravures hors texte d'après les dessins de Gilbert James et Edmund H.Garrett.
Joli exemplaire de cette édition qui regroupe les 5 versions de ce texte avec des notes indiquant les variantes. Dos de la reliure très légèrement passé. (Reu-Bur)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York, Castle Books / Greystone Press, 1953. A small in-16 booklet of 145 x 97 mm, 105 pp. Black half-leather with an embossed title piece on the front cover, both covers adorned with marbled papers and with small, finely gilt-tooled stylised fleurons. Laminated covers. Decorated with an ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING on the page facing the title page. Beautiful drawing of a man in Middle Eastern clothes leaning on vessels with a long pipe at hand and a voluminous turban on his head. Not signed, unknown author. A gem of a book for a piece of immortal poetry.
Toned pages, solid binding. Some loss of color on the spine, otherwise in very good condition. The inside is profusely decorated with head and bottom bands as well as varied flower headpieces above every poem.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. English, french and german translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version. With further selections, notes, biographies, bibliography and other material collected and edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Two volumes.
1896 1 Cambridge, USA, University Press : John Wilson and Son, sans date [Boston, Joseph Knight Company, 1896], 2 volumes ptt in-8° de CLXXIX-203 pp. & VI-205 à 597 pp. ; cartonnages éditeur de toile jaune moutarde, titre or et motif vert aux dos et aux premiers plats, têtes dorées.
Portraits photographiques en frontispices d'Edward FitzGerald au tome 1 et de Friedrich von Bodenstedt.
