rubaiyat astronomer poet persia de omar khayyam edward fitzgerald renderer (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. Gilbert James (illustrateur). Special Edition. Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York. [1904 supplied by Bob Forrest website]. Hardcover. Special Edition by Crowell. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear; light toning to endpapers. No DJ. Cream colored cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the front board in a field of blue floral decorations. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. Gilt textblock top edge. 48 pp 8vo. Illustrated with 8 B&W plates. The Rubaiyat is a series of quatrains, sparkling with witty epigrammatic observances on life and filled with exquisite, oriental imagery. This book uses the Fitzgerald translation and beautiful Katchadourian illustrations. The book is a 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. Each is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rubayot, meaning "quatrains". A translation of the first version of 1859 is reproduced in the rear in 75 stanzas. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Frank Brangwyn (illustrateur). In good condition; leather covers shows considerable surface disintegration; stain front cover; scuffing to gilt edge, otherwise, dark toning outside edges of book; pages split between frontispiece illustration and title page; clean interior pages, except area of light toning pages 28 and 29 and large area of dark toning page 192 and 193, from document placement. Essay on Fitzgerald by Michael Kerney. Epilogue by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Note by W. Aldis Wright. Four full-page color reproductions of drawings by Frank Brangwyn. 262 pages. Approx. 8 x 5.5 in. Inv. EW0206.