Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia

KHAYYAM, Omar (Trans. Edward Fitzgerald)

Verlag: Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1881

Beschreibung

Hardcover: "First American from the Third London Edition." True First American edition was printed in 1878. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt on front cover and spine; all edges stained red; front cover with black decorative border. The cover prints publisher as 'Houghton, Osgood & Co'. Minor wear to extremities, small stain on front cover and three small stains on back cover. Brown coated endpapers. Faint pencil signature dated 1889 on ffep and inked signature dated 1926 on first blank leaf. A long historical introduction followed by poem. Text printed within a red border on rectos only. 79 leaves, numbered on rectos. 6.75" x 5.25" w. An attractive early American edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2361

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the ...

Verlag: Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company

Erscheinungsdatum: 1881

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good