Rubáiyát. Rendered into English quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald. A reprint in full of the first edition, 1859, of the second edition, 1868, and of the fifth edition, 1889, together with notes indicating the minor variants (found in the third, 1872, and in the fourth, 1879). Printed under the editing of Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated with 12 photo-etchings from drawings by Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett and with portrait of Edward Fitzgerald. - Standard edition of the five versions

Khayyam, Omar, Edward Fitzgerald

L. C. Page and Company, Boston, 1899

8vo (16,5x13,5 cm). Orig. decorated and gilt cloth (spine faded). Top edge gilt, uncut. (ii),282,(vi:blank) pp. With decorated title in colours, printed title, frontispiece-portrait and 12 photo-etchings: Composition and Electrotype plates by D. B. Updike "The Merrymount Press; Presswork by C. H. Simonds & Co "The Colonial Press". - On first fly-leaf a written dedication to "Miss Florence A. Mariott. With the kind regards of .. M., 27 January 1899". - Verso of some plates very sl.browned, but over all a good copy.