Book - ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION: BOOK ''RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM''

Physical description

Book. ALEC H CHISHOLM COLLECTION. Small 95 page leather covered booklet of the 75 verse epic poem 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', the astronomer poet of Persia. Translated into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Published in 1910 by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd., London. Printed by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London. Catalogue sticker ''2136 FIT'' on spine. Newspaper cutting pasted on flyleaf entitled 'Vicissitudes of a Great Book'

Inscriptions & markings

Edward Fitzgerald

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