Description: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Hardcover First Dulac trade edition, first impression. Edmund Dulac's illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). Fitzgerald's translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of Fitzgerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition). Doran stated that "the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great". Hughey 21a. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America, 1977. Quarto. Original cream cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Publisher: Weathervane Books
Original/Facsimile: Original
