DULAC, Edmund (illus.); FITZGERALD, Edward (trans.).

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Dulac's "Popular" edition, attractively bound. The first Dulac edition was published in 1909 with 20 colour plates before this 12 plate edition went into circulation in 1914. The latter was reprinted multiple times with variations. Dulac's Rubaiyat confirmed his position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB).FitzGerald's translation was published in 1859, after which it gradually gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s, many of FitzGerald's phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing "cult of the Rubáiyát" found expression in "the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America" (Yohannan, p. 202).

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