The Rubáiyát of ʼUmar Khaiyám
By: translated from the French of J.B. Nicolas by Frederic Baron Corvo, together with a reprint from the French text ; edited with notes and a comparative study of the original texts, and an Introduction by Edward Heron-Allen ; with sixteen illustrations in colour by Hamzeh Carr
Contributors: Nicolas, J.-B., translator; Rolfe, Frederick, 1860-1913, translator; Heron-Allen, Edward, 1861-1943, editor; Carr, Hamzeh, illustrator; Bodley Head (Firm)
Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited
Published: 1924
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Persian poetry; Translations into French; Translations into English
Notes: Cover lettering and image in gold, red, and black with spine rule and The Bodley Head at base of spine; of these "2500 copies were printed. Published on 25 Steptember 1924, at one guinea ['21/- NET.' on spine of dust jacket]"--Woolf.

Variant with cover lettering in black, John Lane at base of spine, and the price removed from the dust jacket is one of 294 bound copies sold as a remainder (along with 1490 sets of sheets) between June 1928 and June 1930--Woolf.

Rare Book copies 1-2: From the Martyr Worthy Collection

Rare Book copies 1 and 3: Cover in gold, red and black with spine rule and Bodley Head at base of spine

Rare Book copy 2: One of 294 bound copies sold as a remainder between June 1928 and June 1930, with cover in red, blue and black, no rules on spine and John Lane at spine base

Rare Book copies 1-2: In original dust jacket; c.1 has price "21/- net" on spine

Includes bibliographical references.

Woolf, Cecil. Bibliography of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo, B2b

Gift; David Eugene Smith.

English and French on opposite pages.