RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
by Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. 191 pages, including 12 superb tipped in color plates by Dulac. Too few color plates to be a first printing, but certainly prior to the 1927 merger of Doran and Doubleday. Bound in green cloth with a front cover decorated by Frank Hazenplug in elaborately designed blind stamp with gilded elephants under a tree; decorated endpapers. The book is clean and tight; color plates are clean, crisp, and bright; gilt decoration on front cover has minimal rubbing--still quite bright; gilt spine lettering is dulled but legible; minimal edgewear; one archivally repaired 5/8 inch tear on front endpaper. There is an unobtrusive store stamp ("Bender's Book Store" in New York City) at bottom of first 2 blank leaves.. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
he Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem; sceptical of divine providence and insistent on the pleasure of the passing moment, its 'Orientalism' offers FitzGerald a powerful and distinctive voice, in whose accents a whole Victorian generation comes to life. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry - and some of the sharpest- edged. The poem sold no copies at all on its first appearance in 1859, yet when it was 'discovered' two years later its first admirers included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Swinburne, and Ruskin. Daniel Karlin's richly annotated edition does justice to the scope and complexity of FitzGerald's lyrical meditation on 'human death and fate'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1373
- Title
- RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
- Illustrator
- Edmund Dulac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Poetry; Decorated Bindings;
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
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About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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