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New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Blue Cloth with blind-stamped blue embossing with git spine titles and a gilt front decoration, the bindings a bit shaken and the text block is square.  Text clean, even toning with occasional foxing mainly on the top of pages.  Moderate shelf handling wear. Over-opened at a few signatures. A Signature on the half-title through Edward Fitzgerald's name.. This book of poetry is attributed to Omar Khayyam, a highly respected Persian astronomer and mathematician, who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries. Generically, rubaiyat describes a collection of a specific type of poem, or rubai, that contains stanzas of four quatrains or lines. The rubai often has a rhyming pattern of A-A-B-A. The Khayyam'sRubaiyat gained interest in the West after the 1859 English translation by Edward FitzGerald, although there are numerous English translations, and the collection has been… Read More