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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Translated Into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald -- A Complete Reprint of the First Edition and the Combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix Containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes

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xxii, 149 pp. 8vo. Beautiful color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, decorative margins. Edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1123), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two line stanza with two parts (or hemistechs) per line, hence the word "Rubaiyat", (derived from the Arabic root word for 4), meaning "quatrains"."