Description
The book is in Very Good condition with cream colored, lightly soiled boards with red diagonal line pattern with blue leaf design present on both the front and rear boards. Also with, faded title ink on a sunned spine that is clearly legible. Also with, lightly faded top stain, deckled edges on side page block and clean edges on the bottom. Also, a tight binding, mild spine tilt, rubbed and frayed, moderate edge wear, and rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with newsprint stains on both front and rear end papers. No other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 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. A ruba’i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for “four”), meaning “quatrains”.Verse 26 has the illustration which was appropriated by The Grateful Dead.
