Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Illustrated by doris m. palmer. version of text is fitzgerald's first edition of 1859.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 4to. 11.75 x 9 inches. 128 pp. Bound in original cream cloth with gilt and black titles and pictorial roundel on front board. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine. Light browning of flyleaves and foxing of lower page edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by tipped in title page with decorated border by 12 tipped in colour plates, protected by tissue guards, and by pictorial orange borders to main text. The Rubaiyat is based on the paraphrased translation from the Persian of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), poet, tentmaker and astronomer, made by Edward Fitzgerald. (1809-83), using the text of his first edition of 1859. With the attractive and richly coloured artwork of Doris M. Palmer (1896-1970), artist and illustrator of the art deco period, in one of her most noteworthy designs.