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RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHÁYYÁM
Translated by EDWARD FITZGERALD
Introduction by JOSEPH JACOBS
Designs by FRANK BRANGWYN
Ordinary cloth edition, 8¼″ × 5½″. 6s. net.
A beautiful and tasteful edition of this great classic. In Fitzgerald’s translation, it has been beautified at the hands of that wonderful artist, Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., in colour and monochrome. Every verse is in an appropriately designed border, in a pleasant grey ink, and in addition, there are four full colour page plates conveying with astonishing reality the poem’s atmosphere. Mr. Brangwyn has, too, designed special end-papers. There is a scholarly introduction by Joseph Jacobs, and the book also contains a short life of the “Astronomer-Poet of Persia,” and a few explanatory notes on the poem. The ordinary edition of the book is bound in strong blue cloth boards, with design on front cover in gold, but the volume is also published in six other editions, in sumptuous styles, in various kinds of leathers and bindings, for presentation purposes chiefly. Editions are also now published in various kinds of leather, illustrated by Fred Adlington.
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