Edward FitzGerald, Joseph Low - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - 1947-1947

Living Library 1947 1st Edition, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam By Edward Fitzgerald, Illustrated by Joseph Low, The World Publishing Company New York UNPAGINATED


DESCRIPTION
RED cut wood block Illustrated on every page, black cloth hard back binding with gilt and maroon designs, text and accents to boards. Publishers' Original Binding.

Illustrated throughout with Beautiful maroon wood block cut images by the prolific and renowned artist Joseph Low. Collated, complete.



'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his 1859 translation of the Persian quatrains attributed to second century Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam.

Fitzgerald's was the first English translation.

Fitzgerald's translations, however, are fairly loose; he referred to his work on them as a 'transmogrification'. Some therefore considering that his translation of 'Rubaiyat' could be considered as Fitzgerald's own original poetry, only loosely based on Khayyam's quatrains.

Undated.

A highly decorative copy of this work.

Condition is Fine to Very Fine, pages are clean, bright and unsoiled throughout as is binding apart from slight cloth rubbing on corners consistent with age and shelf use

Approximate dimensions are 19.2cms in height by 13.2cms wide and 1.2cms in depth, Unpaginated

This is a very scarce and important copy of this example in the finest condition you shall find, a lovely book and special contents copyright edition


Bibliographic Details
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Publisher: The Living Library, The World Publishing Company New York
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator:Joseph Low
Condition:Fine-Very Fine
Edition: 1st Edition USA
Date: 1947

Synopsis
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".

Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".[1]

FitzGerald's work has been published in several hundred editions and has inspired similar translation efforts in English, Hindi and in many other languages.

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