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

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám. First US edition of Dulac's illustrations, helping to confirm the artist's position as "a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham" (ODNB). It was published the same year in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton.FitzGerald's translation was first published in 1859 and 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).

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