The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The First Version of Edward Fitzgerald

Hardcover in slipcase. Unpaginated. Decoratively bound hardcover with silver & gilt designs on front cover, gilt spine lettering, gold top page ridge, decorative endpapers, frontispiece. Housed in original gold slipcase. "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