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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Presented by Willy Pogany, George G. Harrap & Co 1934
The Rubaiyat is one of the most celebrated works of Victorian literary translation. Although based upon the Persian quatrains traditionally attributed to the eleventh-century mathematician, astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald’s free English rendering became a literary classic in its own right, admired as much for its lyrical beauty as for its meditation upon love, fate, mortality and the fleeting nature of life. This attractive Harrap edition is illustrated and decorated throughout by Willy Pogany, whose richly imaginative Art Nouveau-inspired designs complement the poem’s exotic atmosphere and made his illustrated gift books among the most admired of the early twentieth century. Clouded marble endpapers. Contemporary Christmas gift inscription dated 1934 to the first blank.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Presented by Willy Pogany, George G. Harrap & Co 1934
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Presented by Willy Pogany (Illustrated and decorated throughout by Willy Pogany). The Rubaiyat is one of the most celebrated works of Victorian literary translation. Clouded marble endpapers.