Author: Fitzgerald, Edward (translator).

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Format: Hardcover royal octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt peacock design and text, decorative pastedowns, unpaginated, 12 tipped-in plates with tissue guards, 25.3 x 19.5cm.

Presumed trade edition. A collection of poems presented as 110 quatrains, attributed to the Persian ‘astronomer poet’ and mathematician Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

Rubbing, scuffing, bumping, and minor soiling to boards. Gift inscription in ink on flyleaf, foxing scattered throughout, one plate loose at rear.