The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia, Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1894. [POETRY] [ILLUSTRATED]. 8vo (8 ½” x 6 5/8”); 58 French-fold plates; glazed gray cloth over beveled board, gilt and black stamped decoration to front, decorated title on spine; gilt top edge; peach eps printed with a floral and fruit design in navy; 26 French-fold glazed plates printed with 52 illustrations in black & white half-tone; light scuff to corners else fine. Item #2349
A beautiful translation of Khayyám’s quatrains, numbered and presented within Aesthetic-style illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The fifty-two full-page illustrations are followed by twenty-three pages of the quatrains without illustrations, and also by notes on their meanings from Edward Fitzgerald..
The illustrator, Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), was an American who trained in New York City, Paris, and Italy. The Pre-Raphaelites, English and Irish mystics, and the Italian Renaissance influenced his work. His mural decoration can be seen in the hallway of the Reading Room in the Library of Congress. (WIKI)
Omar Khayyám (1048-1131 A.D.) was a Persian poet and polymath of the Seljuk Empire. He was learned in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, sciences, and religion.
Price: $400.00