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Leather embossed cover of the1921
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Contents:

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

EDWARD FITZGERALD (BY MICHAEL KERNEY)

TO E. FITZGERALD (EPILOGUE BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON)

OMAR KHAYYÁM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA (BY EDWARD FITZGERALD)

RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM OF NAISHÁPÚR
FIRST EDITION (1859)

SECOND EDITION (1868)

THIRD EDITION (1872)

FOURTH AND FIFTH EDITIONS (1879 AND 1889)

NOTES TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS (BY EDWARD FITZGERALD)

NOTE (BY W. ALDIS WRIGHT)

COMPARISON OF THE FIVE EDITIONS, SHOWING VARIATIONS IN TEXT

STANZA WHICH APPEARED IN THE FIRST EDITION ONLY

STANZAS WHICH APPEARED IN THE SECOND EDITION ONLY

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF STANZAS IN THE FIVE EDITIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY BY ORIGINAL FITZGERALD EDITIONS

Illustrations

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...

Now the New Year reviving old Desires...

Look to the Rose that blows about us -- "Lo,...

Lo! come we loved, the lovliest and the best...

And that inverted Bowl we call the Sky,...

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring...

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon...

Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!...

And when Yourself with silver Foot shall pass...

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;...

And this reviving Herb whose tender Green...

So, when that Angel of the Darker Drink,...