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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)
- Used
- Condition
- Full red levant. Aeg. Fine in matching red slipcase
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. leather_bound. Full red levant. Aeg. Fine in matching red slipcase. Rene Bull. 75 pages printed recto only. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Hand bound by Joseph E. Zuffant Jr.,for The Monastery Hill Bindery with his label mounted to inside front free endpaper. Twenty four tipped in color plates with lettered tissue guards, illustrations after Rene Bull mounted within decorative borders with additional black and white illustrated in line. Raised bands, spine panels in gilt motifs, inner dentelles, decorative raised endpaper designs, double gilt border panel covers frame arabesque designs.
Synopsis
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22425
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator)
- Illustrator
- Rene Bull
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Full red levant. Aeg. Fine in matching red slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Literature
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- Illustrated Books; Design;
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ardsley, New York
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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