Antique Book Vintage Rubáiyát or OF OMAR KHAYYAM Illustrated 1947 rare

Description: Estate sale find Rubiyt or OF OMAR KHAYYAM TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH QUA TRAINS BY EDWARD FITZGERALD. A Complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix contain ing FitzGerald's Prefaces and Notes. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer Random House NEW YORK Great Book For Display Library, Office, Bookshelf, Gorgeous Piece Collectors Dr MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A. COPYRIGHT 1947 BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC. PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CANADA BY RANDOM HOUSE OF CANADA, LTD. page 115 CONTENTS page vii RUBIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYM FIRST EDITION page 3 page 53 Introduction by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH EDITIONS FITZGERALD'S PREFACES AND NOTES AN INTRODUCTION THE world has known only a few great colleague collaborators from Beaumont and Fletcher to Gil bert and Sullivan. Yet the strangest and most remarkable collaboration ever achieved was accom plished by a pair of minor poets separated by three thousand miles and more than seven hundred years. Had it not been for a nineteenth century English country squire it is doubtful whether we would have known, and it is certain that we would never have quoted, the simple but unforgettable stanzas of an eleventh century Persian mathematician. The author of the original rhymes (literally rub-i: hence rubiyt, a collection of rhymes) was Ghiythuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al Khayymi-or, in more concise English, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. A native of the little town of Naishapur, he followed his father's pro fession-he even whimsically speaks of "stitching the tents of science"-studied with the wise men

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