Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia
By: translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald; first printed by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1959, and now reproduced by photo-lithographic process in exact facsimile.
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, tr.
Publisher: T. B. Mosher
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Portland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Notes: Half-title: FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The editio princeps. 1859.
The frontispiece is a photogravure of a cancelled frontispiece to the 3d edition, London, 1872, etched by Edwin Edwards.
"200 copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper, numbered and signed by the publisher, and the type distributed. No. 181. [Signed] Thomas B. Mosher."
Includes facsimiles of the title-pages of the 2d edition, London, 1868; the Columbus, O., reprint of the 2d edition, 1870; the 3d edition, London, 1872; the Boston reprint of the 3d edition, 1878; the 4th edition, London, 1879,; the Cleveland, O., miniature edition, 1900.