1952 hardcover from Garden City Publishing. Good condition with moderate scuffing and soiling to cover. Missing dust jacket. Includes illustrations by Edmund Dulac throughout.
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám attained fame when it was translated and introduced to a Western audience by the author and poet Edward Fitzgerald. Selected for their lyrical beauty, the poems within the Rubáiyát are attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám. Writing in the eleventh century, Khayyám was revered as a master of the poetic form, and his works have since been much-quoted by artists and admirers.
