Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : the astronomer-poet of Persia /
Omar Khayyam.
FitzGerald, Edward,1809-1883.
Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan),1936-
Puttapipat, Niroot.
Palmer, Ged.
Oliver, Nicky,binding designer.StEdNL
Folio Society (London, England)
Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition(2015).StEdNL
London : The Folio Society,
2012.
Issued in a case.
"This fine edition reproduces all of Niroot Puttapitat's original illustrations from the 2009 Folio Society Limited Edition: a frontispiece, 15 full-page illustrations and 5 small line drawings in total. The text is set in 16-point Van Dyck, with four quatrains to a page, and with an illustration opposite each page. The verse pages are unpaginated.."--Publisher's website.
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was first published by Bernard Quaritch in 1859. The text of this edition follows that of the first edition, with minor emendations."--T.p. verso.
Introduction / A.S. Byatt -- Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia / Edward FitzGerald -- Rubaiyat -- Note / Edward FitzGerald.
A fragment from illustration LXX has been taken and abstracted for the printed endpapers, doublures and the leather, Bradel-style binding. Winner of Best Craft Binding Overall Category in the 2015 Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition. The binder was Nicky Oliver.
Omar Khayyam
Persian poetry
England London.