Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221867
Summary
Bibliographic description
[61] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Provenance: Inscribed on half-title "Edie from Blanche A. Rosslyn Xmas 1909" [presented to Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915, by Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy (1839-1933), widow of Robert St.Clair Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn (d. 1890). Their eldest daughter Millicent married Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland, Edith's uncle]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's gilt illustrated full cream cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, decorative endpapers.
Makers and roles
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) Edmund Dulac (Toulouse 1882 – 1953) Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)