Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: And the Salaman and Absal of Jami: Rendered Into English Verse By Edward FitzGerald
by Khayyam, Omar; Jami; FitzGerald, Edward (translator); Wright, W. Aldis (editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897. First Thus. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy in the (very attractive) original green cloth elaborately decorated with floral designs in gilt, top edge gilt (minor wear; ink inscription on endpaper dated 1897). 288 pages + plate. Spine and upper cover title: Rubaiyat. Possible later issue; includes the texts of the first and the fifth editions of FitzGerald's reworkings of Omar Khayyam, as well as his translation of Jami's poem, with supplemental material (biographical preface signed 'M. K.'; Tennyson's poem ('To E. FitzGerald'); table of textual variations and comparative table of stanzas in the first 4 edition of the Rubaiyat; FitzGerald's 'Life of Jami' and the 'Letter to Professor Cowell'; notes by FitzGerald and editor Wright; plus an appendix for 'Salaman and Absal'). Date is conjectural (not dated in book). 1 b/w Frontispiece (portrait).
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 611752
- Title
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: And the Salaman and Absal of Jami: Rendered Into English Verse By Edward FitzGerald
- Author
- Khayyam, Omar; Jami; FitzGerald, Edward (translator); Wright, W. Aldis (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Leather Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Khayyam, Omar Persian Literature Medieval Persian Poetry English Translation Jami FitzGerald, Edward Binding Suede Decorative QX91, , , , , ,
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- Spine
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- Plate
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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