Icc3.5.03
[Rubaiyat. English & Persian]
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayym : being a facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a transcript into modern Persian characters, / translated, with an introduction and notes, and a bibliography, and some sidelights upon Edward Fitzgerald's poem by Edward Heron-Allen.
Second edition carefully revised and considerably enlarged.
London : H. S. Nichols Ltd., 39 Charing Cross Road, W.C., MDCCCXCVIII [1898]
[10], xlii, [2], 320 p., leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography - pp. 281-287.
With a half-title.
Includes additional decorative title-page.
Publisher's white morocco cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in gold and green/grey.
One of 1,000 copies.
Ms. inscription: "Sybil Eden ... de l'Auteur [Edward Heron-Allen], 1884, 1890, 1901".
Armorial bookplate of Antony Eden.
Persian poetry.
Persian literature.
Eden, Anthony, 1897 - 1977 former owner.
Eden, Sybil Frances, 1867 - 1945 former owner.
H. S. Nichols Ltd. publisher.
England London.
eng per per
B28062