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
1894rif. 2349Boston: 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. 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 from Edward Fitzgerald on their meanings. 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. Houghton Mifflin and Company, by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass unknown books
