OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... rendered into English verse. Second edition. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. London: John Childs & Son for Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Small 4 in 8s (208 x 160mm). Early related newspaper clipping mounted on verso of title. (Light marginal soiling.) Near-contemporary green limp morocco gilt (extremities faded and slightly rubbed). Provenance: unidentified early inscription, dated 1879.

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OMAR Khayym (d. circa 1123). Rubiyt ... rendered into English verse. Second edition. Translation by Edward Fitzgerald. London: John Childs & Son for Bernard Quaritch, 1868. Small 4 in 8s (208 x 160mm). Early related newspaper clipping mounted on verso of title. (Light marginal soiling.) Near-contemporary green limp morocco gilt (extremities faded and slightly rubbed). Provenance: unidentified early inscription, dated 1879.

Second edition, one of 500 copies printed. This is the first edition of Fitzgerald's second version of the Rubiyt. Potter 129.

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