The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

128pp, with full page woodcut illustrations by Marjorie Anderson, introduced by Richard Housman. Uses the text of the first edition, from 1859. Red faux leather (vinyl) covers with gilt decoration (covering very slightly rounded at spine base, internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title given by FitzGerald to his 1859 translation from Persian into English of a series of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), also known as the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. This delightfully robust but compact edition uses the original text of FitzGerald's translation of the quatrains. 16mo.