BOOKS
Khayyam, Omar / Fitsgerald, Edward (transl.) / Burnett, Virgil (illustr.).
The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London, The Folio Society, 1999
€ 22.50
Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, 32pp., 14x22,5cm., illustr. by Virgil Burnett in b/w. , in good condition (slipcover with some traces of use, binding in very good condition, name and date in pencil on first page).
Itemnummer 15862 
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".