Edward Fitzgerald, illus. Robert Stewart Sherriffs Ed. G. F. Main - 1st Edition 1947 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald illus. - 1947

1st Edition 1947 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald illus. Robert Stewart Sherriffs Ed. G. F. Maine
Very scarce 1st Edition London: Collins, 1947. Ed. G. F. Maine; illus. Robert Stewart Sherriffs. Quarto, original red cloth boards with gilt and black title labels upper board and spine, dustjacket, twelve colour plates, pp 224. Bright and clean pages throughout with tinted vibrant illustrative plates, small patches of foxing to front and end papers, strangely title page has been removed discreetly, clean, very good condition in like d.j. Uncommon in dustjacket. 

This edition of the Persian poet and polymath has an introduction by Laurence Housman, an essay about Edward FitzGerald by G.F. Maine, FitzGerald's original introduction, the text of the first, second, and fifth editions of the Rubaiyat, notes, a glossary, a bibliography, and striking full-page colour plates by Robert Stewart Sherriffs which were specially drawn for this

Introduction by Laurence Housman. Biography of Edward Fitzgerald by G.F. Maine. There are many editions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Some are prose translations which faithfully mirror the thought and imagery of the original, others are in verse of varying degrees of excellence, but none has won such universal favour as that best loved of all renderings by Edwrd Fitzgerald, 1809-1883. This book contains the First, Second, and Fifth Editions in full, together with the textual variations in the Third and Fourth Editions, thus providing the reader with a complete rendition of Fitzgerald's work over more than twenty-five years. There are, in addition the notes to the Second Edition which contains the largest number of quatrains and a glossary. The illustrations were specially drawn for this edition by Robert Stewart Sherriffs

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