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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... re-printed privately from the London edition; with an extract from the Calcutta Review ... a note by M. Garcin de Tassy, and a few additional quatrains. Edited by ?Whitley Stokes. Madras: privately printed, 1862. 8 (212 x 137mm). Manuscript corrections to "additional" quatrains nos. IV and XII. (Old light dampstain to lower inner corners.) Original cloth, letterpress label on upper cover (faded, neatly rebacked, inner hinges strengthened), slip-case. Provenance: Henry John Stokes (signature); sale: Sotheby's 5 July 1959 lot 413 sold 38 to Quaritch; Francis Kettaneh (booklabel).
VERY RARE, LIMITED TO 50 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPIES. According to the records, the present example is the only copy to have appeared at auction since 1922. The bulk of the verses are from Fitzgerald's first edition of 1859, with 15 additional quatrains by the Celtic language scholar Whitley Stokes (1830-1909). In 1872, Fitzgerald wrote to Quaritch: "... by the by, Cowell wrote to me some months ago the Edn. 1 had been reprinted by someone in India. So I have not lived in vain, if I have lived to be Pirated". This is a little unfair on Stokes since, according to Swinburne, it was Stokes who brought the Rubiyt to Rossetti's notice thereby assuring its rescue from the beckoning obscurity of Quaritch's remainder bin. The corrections appear in other copies of this edition and are probably in Whitley Stokes' hand. Potter 166.
VERY RARE, LIMITED TO 50 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPIES. According to the records, the present example is the only copy to have appeared at auction since 1922. The bulk of the verses are from Fitzgerald's first edition of 1859, with 15 additional quatrains by the Celtic language scholar Whitley Stokes (1830-1909). In 1872, Fitzgerald wrote to Quaritch: "... by the by, Cowell wrote to me some months ago the Edn. 1 had been reprinted by someone in India. So I have not lived in vain, if I have lived to be Pirated". This is a little unfair on Stokes since, according to Swinburne, it was Stokes who brought the Rubiyt to Rossetti's notice thereby assuring its rescue from the beckoning obscurity of Quaritch's remainder bin. The corrections appear in other copies of this edition and are probably in Whitley Stokes' hand. Potter 166.