Exeter: Sydney Lee Ltd, 1926
8vo (19 x 12.5 x 1.1cm) Unpaginated. Original hardcover binding, with gilt lettering and inlaid patterning to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbeled endpapers. Frontispiece with protective tissue paper. With lint bookmark.
A literal translation of the Ousely manuscript housed at Oxford University and with a rendering into English verse by C. S. Tute.
Omar Khayyam (8 May 1048–4 December 1131) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Persia, and was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuks around the time of the First Crusade. There is a tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains. This poetry became widely known to the English-reading world in a translation by Edward FitzGerald (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859), which enjoyed great success in the Orientalism of the fin de siècle.
Condition: Good. Slight edgewear to boards, and minor bumps to corners of rear board. Split to gutter between front pastedown and free endpaper. Slight water stain to top edge of front free endpaper and front flyleaf. Slight yellowing to front and rear flyleaves. Errata slip tipped in after half title page. Minor foxing to a few pages and to edges of textblock. Text is clean, and copy is still well bound.
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