Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Herbert Cole. London: The Bodley Head, 1928. First Edition Thus. Pp xxv, 54. Bound in half maroon morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt tooling and devices, gilt lettered green label to spine. Housed in slipcase. A charming copy, handsomely bound.

Published as part of The Hlelicon Series VIII.

Herbert Cole’s work was influenced by Walter Crane & Edward Burne-Jones.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. His Rubaiyat is regarded as the chief exemplar of the Arabic verse form “roba’i,” a poem composed in quatrains in which the first, second and fourth lines rhyme.