Condition: Acceptable condition for a used book! Minimal wear. See images for the condition of this book.
Blurb:“This edition of The Rubáiyat follows the original Golden Cockerel Press edition, designed by Christopher Sandford, and set in Caslon's Old Face type. The illustrations are copied from the collotypes in that edition. The presswork, on Beckett Laid Text, is by the Murray Printing Company, and the binding is by the Haddon Craftsmen. The jacket was designed by Lauretta Sellitti. The book was published in this edition in December, 1965, and reprinted in December, 1967.”
A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc. South Brunswick, New Jersey
Rendered into English Quatrains. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains"