The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam. Hardback. - 1940

Collins Clear Type Press, 1940-01-01. 1st Edn. 1st Imp.. Hardback.. VG+/VG+/ND. Box X100 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: (1940)* Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. With small blind impressed fountain logo to face. Light bumps, minor rubs to edges, corners and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean crisp and tight. No inscriptions or annotations. Top edges faded & coloured (brown). Patterned and coloured end papers. Small neat inscription to half title dated xmas 1940. VG++* Illustrations: Four full page b/w plates one to frontis and three in text & b/w line drawn vignettes at chapter heads and at start and finish.* Pages: 244 pp. text. xiii pp. appendices & blank at rear.* Product Description:- FitzGeralds translation from the Persian poet Omar Khayyam 1048-1131, appeared in five editions from 1859 to 1889. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version is a high point of the 19th century and has been greatly influential. Indeed, the term ?Rubaiyat? by itself has come to be used to describe the quatrain rhyme scheme that FitzGerald used in his translations. The foreword to this edition is very interesting on the publication history of Fitzgerald?s translation. A NEAR FINE text copy of this edition with minor board faults reducing it to VG+. No dust jacket.* 0