1925 Scarce Edition - Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Blanche McManus.

 

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Author: Omar Khayyam. Translated By Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated By Blanche MacManus.
Title: Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam - Edward Fitzgerald's Translation With Twelve Illustrations By Blanche McManus.
Publisher: London, At The De La More Press, 1925.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 5.5 "
Pages: 36 pages.
Binding: Beautiful and very good brown textured leather binding stamped in gilt (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition in this scarce binding variant.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean - as shown, name of a previous owner on the first blank - as shown, small stain in the upper margin of half-title page - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 12 beautiful Art Nouveau illustrations and elaborate borders by Blanche MacManus.


The book: Scarce and Nice edition of Blanche McManus' illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám --Edward FitzGerald's translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubayot (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains".

The illustrator: Blanche McManus (1869–1935) was an American writer and artist. She and her husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield wrote a series of illustrated travel books, many of which included information about automobiles which were new at the time. Her work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The author: Omar Khayyam (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet.
As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. As an astronomer, he composed a calendar which proved to be a more accurate computation of time than that proposed five centuries later by Pope Gregory XIII.