![]() ![]() The lushly exotic and sentimental colored illustrations, enabled by Victorian print technology, matched the melancholy hedonism of FitzGerald’s version of the Rubaiyat. The drive to illustrate the Rubáiyat was given extra impetus first by the development from the 1860s onwards of wood-engraved colour illustrations and later, around the end of the century, by the coming of color halftone printing. The height of the poem’s popularity corresponded with the heyday of the illustrated book, and such well-known illustrators as Willy Pogany, Edmund Dulac, René Bull and Frank Brangwyn received commissions to illustrate the poem. A fine example.įirst published in 1859, Edward FitzGerald’s version of Omar Khayyam’s quatrains was widely read only after it was taken up by the Pre-Raphaelites in 1861. ![]() Spine with four raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, decorative end-papers, top edge gilt. Full dark blue morocco, covers ruled in gilt with a central 'arabesque' design surrounded by four richly gilt decorated corner pieces. Sixteen full-page and four smaller black & white drawings, all with decorative borders.īound ca, 1942 by Maurin (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM MAURIN, binder POGANY, Willy FITZGERALD, Edward Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ![]()
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