"Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" FITZGERALD, Edward
$1,500
FITZGERALD, Edward
[189] pp.
Hodder and Stoughton
8" x 6"
w/ publisher's dappled slipcase box
w/ illustrations by Edmund Dulac
Full-morocco leather bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
Although commercially unsuccessful at first, FitzGerald's work was popularised from 1861 onward by Whitley Stokes, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites in England. FitzGerald had a third edition printed in 1872, which increased interest in the work in the United States. By the 1880s, the book was extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent that numerous "Omar Khayyam clubs" were formed and there was a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat".