FITZGERALD, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
SUPERBLY BOUND IN A JEWELLED BINDING; SET WITH 37 JEWELS BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE; ONE OF ONLY 10 EXAMPLES
London: Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1910.
$125,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-150950
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Exceptionally rare bound in jewelled binding, set with 37 jewels by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Quarto, reproduced from a manuscript illuminated by F. Sangorski G. & Sutcliffe, with miniatures after E. Geddes, original red straight-grained morocco, upper cover with central sunken oval green morocco panel and a Peacock with light green, blue, white, and brown morocco onlays, the Peacock with an outstretched tail with feathers intricately gilt with blue heart onlays, set with a circle of 31 gold and torquoise garnets, the eye and comb in white morocco, all surrounded by a gilt floral background with large Tudor roses in corners, all within a blue morocco gilt tooled border, lower cover in a matching Tudor rose design, edges gauffered and gilt, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, green morocco lettering-pieces in two, the rest with a grape or Tudor rose design, blue morocco doublures, blue watered silk endleaves, two filigree brass clasps fitted with 6 jewels. Original cloth folding case, bookplate. An exceptional piece of history.
Eleventh-century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam composed more than one thousand quatrains, or rubaiyat, on love and mortality, expressing an enigmatic theology that has been interpreted and disputed over the course of centuries. Scholar Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), first translator and author of five separate English versions of the Rubaiyat, did not produce strict translations as much as loose "transmogrifications" of the poetry, often taking great liberties with the original Persian text. Nevertheless, he remains the most famous of Omar Khayyam's translators, and is credited with bringing the Rubaiyat to broad public notice in the English-speaking world.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
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