The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The First and Fifth Editions of the Translation

xxxviii, [39]-197, [3] pp. 8vo. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with color plates by Edmund Dulac. Includes the first and fifth editions of the translation, as well as biographical prefaces giving background on both Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam. "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"." -- Wikipedia