Edward Fitzgerald - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Beautifully illustrated Khorasan Edition, 1980. Post available. Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam -
Khorasan Edition
There have been many editions of The Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Some are prose translations which faithfully mirror the thought and imagery of the original, others are in verse of varying degrees of excellence, but none has won such universal favour as that by Edward FitzGerald (1809-83).

This book contains the First, Second, and Fifth Editions in full, together with the textual variants in the Third and Fourth Editions, thus providing the reader with a complete rendition of FitzGerald's work on The Rubaiyát, over a period of more than twenty-five years.

There are, in addition, a general Introduction by Laurence Housman, an essay on Edward FitzGerald by G. F.
Maine, FitzGerald's essay on Omar, the Notes to the Second Edition, which contains the largest number of quatrains (110), and a Glossary.

The illustrations which so splendidly adorn this edition were specially drawn.