Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : a paraphrase from several literal translations.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
Category
Books
Date
1901
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215821
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third and enlarged edition, April 1901. xiv, [2], 95, [1] p. ; 18cm. Some pencil marks. Provenance: Inscribed on half-title: "Edith Castlereagh". Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (dated 1910), bearing arms of Vane-Tempest-Stewart impaling Chaplin. Banners with motto (1) in Scottish Gaelic ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]), (2) Knowledge is the antidote to fear. Open book entitled "Of gardens by Bacon". Images of a horse and a man. Banner lettered "Edith Castlereagh" around image of Diana Chasseresse [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century half maroon morocco on beige paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine. Gilt monogram on upper cover [associated with Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Gilt edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866-1947)