rubaiyat omar khayyam astronomer poet persia de omar khayyam translated edward fitzgerald (16 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Ariel Booklet. 4 x 5 1/2 in. iii, 105 pgs, plus adverts. Full scarlet morocco with gilt press and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Top of text block is gilt. Tissue-protected B&W frontis. No date given, but our researches make it 1910. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners very slightly bumped but not worn, edges not worn, covers very clean and fresh. Spine very slightly darkened. The frontis is partially detached, but endpapers glued down in such a way thet the binding is perfectly sound, and the copy entirely readable. Text very clean. Comes in a paper slip case, green with red 'The Ariel Booklets' and has wear and a dent, plue base seam is split, but it is all in one piece and useable. Poetry/Rubayyat. RGR.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. This reproduction is made from the copy of the First Edition in the British Museum. [4], xiii, [1], 21pp, printed on laid paper, with upper/lower deckled page edges, bound in half Japanese vellum and paper over boards, binding and hinges tight. Covers age toned with light corner wear, interior shows occasional light foxing, with an ink stamped "30 MR 59" on the verso of the last page.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Robinson, T. Heath (illustrateur). Full bonded leather, all edges gilt, a little rubbed on the spine, colour illustrations, previous owners name, not dated c1910 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1898. Copyright 1898, this edition likely ca. 1900. Followed the text of the fourth edition and includes biographical preface and sketch of the poet's life by Fitzgerald. Blue cloth printed in gilt, top edge gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, black and white frontis plate with descriptive information on the overleaf tissue, title page in red and black with decorative woodcut borders, 75 pages. Very good condition with a small spot on the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages, personal bookplate on front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Illustrated Wrappers. Etat : Very Good +. First Edition Thus. 26 Pp [Cover, Title Page, Pages Numbered 5-25, Rear Cover]. Elaborate Cover Design By Will Bradley, Printed In Green, With A Small Decoration By Bradley, Also In Green, On The Title Page. Finely Printed On Handmade Paper, Pages A Little Smaller Than The Covers. No Names Or Marks Or Further Printed Information. Very Scarce, Only One Institutional Holding Shown In Worldcat; Not Mentioned In The Bradley Bibliography By Bambace Nor The Rubaiyat Bibliography By Potter. Bradley Designed Several Editions Of This Work, But This Is Much Later And The Designs Are Unlike The Earlier Publications. Covers Lightly Worn At Edges With A Few Small Foxing Spots In Margins.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Elihu VEDDER (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First Edition thus, later printing. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an accompaniment of drawings by ELIHU VEDDER. No DJ; stamped binding with gilt design by Elihu Vedder. Very Light wear to the edges. Some foxing of the edges. Decorated endpapers. TEG. Unmarked pages. More images and/or description can be sent on request. An important work in the history of American book publishing. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Very Good+.

Etat : Collectible. 25th American - Silver Anniversary. FINE. Virtually new. Gilt art nouveau decorated brown boards. The essential-copy without Veddeer illustrations; ORIGINAL 1896 edition . Scarce for date and quality. Beautiful script name in pencil on 3rd front endpaper, dated 10/23/(18)96. 77pp. [B50].

Full Calf. Etat : Very Good. Later Printing. Later printing of the fifth edition of FitzGerald's version of Khayyam's verses, with a biographical essay on Khayyam, notes on the fifth edition, text of the first edition, notes comparing second, third, and fourth editions, second edition stanzas, table comparing stanzas, note by editor W.A.W. One of the publisher's Golden Treasury Series, first published in this form in 1899; here in the fifth printing thus. Hardcover, as pictured: full brown calf with gilt inside dentelles, austere floral spine decoration, signed by London binder/bookseller "Denny - 147 Strand." Light wear, minor chipping, corners bumped & rubbed, minor sporadic foxing. Text clean, no names or marks; [6], 111 pages. Size: 4¼" by 6½".

[NONE] 2012. (hardcover) Fine. 70pp. Folio. Dark blue buckram over purple vendome cloth. Full colour plates and black and white drawings. Housed, as issued, in sturdy, matte gilt slipcase with one side illustrated. The slipcase shows a couple of soft, short, indentations (not overly noticable) to the illustrated panel of the slipcase. Fine (exquisite) copy of this best loved, epic poem in near fine slipcase. Introduced by A. S. Byatt. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition Thus. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. First edition with the Vedder illustrations. Lovely presentation divided into sections - first, the poetry incorporated into beautifully illustrated Art Nouveau black and white plates; next, the verses printed in plain text and followed by notes; last, biographies of both the poet and the translator. Pages are printed on folded paper that has the blank sides together connected at the outer edges with the printing on the outer pages. Silvery gray cloth over thick beveled boards with a lovely mystical illustration in gilt and black, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, varous pagination (one inch thick). Very good condition with light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, foxing to blank pages at beginning and end, pages otherwise very clean with no names or other markings. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Full cream vellum, gilt, a little discoloured in places, browning to the endpapers, a facsimile of the original Bernard Quaritch edition of 1859, number 91 from 100 printed, 2, xiii, 21pp, on rag paper Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard back binding in publisher's original polished tree calf leather covers, five raised bands to the spine with green and gilt morocco title lettering label, elaborate tools between, gilt perimeter tools to the front and rear covers, top edge gilt, knurled gilt edges, gilt dentelles, blue and cream marble end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5¾''. Contains 290 printed pages of text. Ink message dated 1912 to the top of the second front free end paper, light rubbing to the corners, without any foxing and in Very Good clean, tight and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Limited Edition. London: Folio Society, 2009, Numbered Limited Edition SIGNED by Niroot Puttapipat. Folio Society sesquicentennial hand bound quarter vellum edition, spine blocked in 22-carat gold, vellum corner tips, front board blocked in three shades of foil with a design by Niroot Puttapipat, Merida Persian blue paper sides, top edge gilt, wide navy ribbon marker. Hand printed under the artist s supervision by the Pauper s Press, Hoxton, London. Folio Society facsimile limited to 1,000 numbered copies, limitation page and end sheets printed letterpress by the Logan Press. Hand written number 211 of 1000 Limited Edition copies with a new etching hand-printed, SIGNED and numbered by the artist 'Niroot Puttapipat'. With 16 mounted colour plates with gold borders and highlights and tipped into decorative anthropomorphic silhouette border designs. Quatrains set in 24-point Caslon. Presented in a navy cloth bound solander box with original white tissue paper present. 220pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 14 inches tall (slipcase), 13 inches tall (book). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition pictorial decoration to the front board. Page edges very good condition gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Slipcase very good condition minor marks, gilt titles. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition. End papers very good condition. Title very good condition unread. Pages very good condition unread. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2009 Binding: Hardback. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Elihu Vedder (1836 1923) (illustrateur). Signed Limited Edition. Elephant Folio, 17 x 14 1/2 in. (430 x 365 mm); pp. [128], 8 pages at the end of the book have printed notes and an index of illustrations. This is NUMBER 80 of 100 DELUXE COPIES on Japanese paper with remarque plates. Decorative title and 56 mounted Albertype plates by Elihu Vedder, well inked and sharp. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the limitation page. Original brown morocco binding by Riverside Press (stamp on verso of f.e.p.), blind tooled and gilt on a design by Vedder; silk doublures decorated with vines, fruit and flowers, also on Vedder's design; wide turn-ins with elaborate gilt dentelles; a.e.g. endpapers in excellent condition, bar a little rubbing in the middle of the spine. Some foxing and staining throughout, mostly limited to the tapes that hold the heavy paper mounts on which the plates are pasted, and in 6 instances small spots on the plates but otherwise limited to the border areas, not the images themselves. Housed in a bespoke handsome and very solid brown linen drop-back box, with brown morocco profiles and spine, gilt titles and fillets on black morocco labels, beige silk lining. [Potter 201; Fielding 1986, p. 972]. An impressive FIRST FOLIO DELUXE EDITION of the ever-popular collection of quatrains (rub??iy?t) by the Persian polymath Omar Khayyám (1048 1131). This book was a publishing sensation: both the deluxe edition of 100 copies and the regular unsigned print run with paper cover and typeset text were released in Boston on November 8th, 1884 and sold out within six days. Houghton Mifflin reissued the Vedder Rubáiyát in different formats in 1886. New editions and reprints continued into the 1920s. This project was was a very personal one for the American artist Elihu Vedder who worked on the 57 illustrations for almost a full year. His highly mystical imagery and visionary style was a perfect match for the strong emotional content of the Rubáiyát, and probably mirror his own emotions at the loss of two of his children and the birth of another. Vedder rearranged the stanzas from Edward Fitzgerald's translation, organizing them in three sections (Joy, Death, Rebirth) which echo his own emotional path and the revelations he drew from the Persian quatrains. The works were printed on Japanese paper for the deluxe edition and reproduced the pencil, ink, chalk, and watercolor drawings through a new photographic process, Albertype, which could accurately replicate the subtle gradations of the originals. Later editions were smaller and used a half-tone process which could not convey the full depth of Vedder's artistry. The original drawings are in the holdings of the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, as is a deluxe copy of the book (copy offered here in finer condition) and were the subject of a special exhibition in 1998 "Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát" , which then toured several museums around the U.S. in 2008-2009. ELIHU VEDDER (February 26, 1836 January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet. Born in New York City, he trained in New York, Paris and Italy, where he was strongly influenced by Italian Renaissance work and by the modern Macchiaioli painters. He finally settled in Rome after the end of the Civil War and had a home in Capri following the commercial success of his Rubáiyát. He also traveled frequently to England and was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and by the work of English and Irish mystics such as William Blake and William Butler Yeats. His most public commission was for mural paintings at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., and Tiffany & Co. commissioned him to design statuettes, mosaics and glassware. He moved back to Italy permanently in 1906 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

Etat : Near fine. Third Edition. 8vo, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm); xxiv + 36 + (xiv) pp. Beautiful dark maroon morocco binding by Club Bindery 1892 (gold stamped on bottom of inside cover), gilt titling and gilt fillets on turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pictorial bookplate of John A. Spoor 1921 on inside front cover by Emery Walker. Elegantly printed with text within decorative frames on each page. Spine lightly rubbed, small tear to the inside front endpaper. [Potter, 137]. Edward Fitzgerald continually revised and rearranged his version of the Rubáiyát, which was first published privately by the author in 1859, through four distinct editions during his lifetime. This third edition settled on 101 quatrains (as opposed to 75 in the first edition and 110 in the second), which is how it solidified. 500 copies were printed. A RARITY. In this third edition the translator is not credited on the title page, nor is the introductory text. Fitzgerald said of his Persian translations that they were "All very well, but very little affairs." (from the Bibliographical Note in the 1926 Shakespeare Head Press edition, which we are offering, inventory #416) This copy bears the bookplate of Chicago business mogul John A. Spoor. An avid book collector, he assembled a notable and impressive book collection during the late 19th and early 20th century, which was auctioned in 1939 by Parke-Bernet New York over the course of 6 days. The Morgan Library holds a number of books with the Spoor bookplate in its collections. This bookplate was engraved by Emery Walker (1851 1933), an engraver, publisher and photographer active in the Arts and Crafts movement, whose work in type design inspired the evolution of private presses in the UK, among them William Morris' Kelmscott Press. OMAR KHAYYÁM (1048 1131) was a Persian, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Born in northeastern Persia around the time of the First Crusade, his poetry in quatrains became wildly popular during the Orientalist craze of fin-de-siècle Europe, with several verse and prose translations in English, French, German, and Russian being published starting with Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.

Etat : Near fine. Thomas Lowinsky (illustrateur). Crown 8vo, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (180 x 132 mm); vii + 137 pp. 3/4 red morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf, London [stamped on bottom left of first free flyleaf], marbled boards with matching end-papers, gilt titling between two raised bands, t.e.g. Gentle wear to hinges. Printed in black and with red ink text and decorations on half- and title pages and colophon. Light foxing on endpapers and half-title page. Slight toning to inside pages. Previous owner's ink inscription "D.M. from Wing Commander Whittaker." This is no. 6 of Shakespeare Head Press' Quartos series. [Potter 123]. This elegant little edition is prefaced with a lengthy "Bibliographical Note" which tells the "story of the writing and printing of 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.'" The manuscript was discovered by E. Cowell, a colleague of Fitzgerald, in the Bodleian, one of the oldest in existence, dated from Shiraz A.H.865 (A.D.1460, some 337 years after the death of Omar), "beautifully written in purplish ink on thick yellow vellum and powdered with gold." The note goes on to talk of the various (amended) editions by Bernard Quarich, starting in 1859, and stating that "The versions grew successively poorer under revision." This edition uses the first translation by Fitzgerald. OMAR KHAYYÁM (1048 1131) was a Persian, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. Born in northeastern Persia around the time of the First Crusade, his poetry in quatrains became wildly popular during the Orientalist craze of fin-de-siècle Europe, with several verse and prose translations in English, French, German, and Russian being published starting with Edward FitzGerald in 1859: "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.".