OMAR KHAYYÁM; POGÁNY, Willy (illus.).

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Rubáiyát. Signed limited edition, British issue, number 596 of 750 copies signed by the artist, specially bound, and with an original etching also signed by Pogány. Pogány's illustrated edition was first published in 1909. Copies in the original box are scarce.Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát, first published in 1859, slowly 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). A further 500 copies of Pogany's illustrated edition were printed for the US.

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