Edward Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyām
translator
Eben Francis Thompson
(Worcester, 1859 - 1939, Worcester)
author
Omar Khayyam
(Nishabur, Persia, 1048 - 1131, Nishabur, Persia)
translator
Edward FitzGerald
(Bredfield, England, 1809 - 1883, Merton, England)
printer
Commonwealth Press
(active Worcester, Massachusetts, 1911 - 1989)
Date1907
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions24.8 x 17.1 x 1.9 cm (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.c.2.8
eMuseum ID725539
EmbARK ObjectID19233
TMS Source ID6691
Last Updated8/9/24
Descriptionxiii, 148 p., [1] p. of plates : ill., port. ; 25 cm [HathiTrust rec. #010823671)Status
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MarksNotesInscribed in black ink (on front end paper): To / Mrs Gardner / with best wishes of / the Editor, / Worcester Massachusetts / 10 April 1918
Inscribed in black ink (on frontispiece tissue): your sincere Friend / Johnson Fitzgerald
Printed on self-adhesive printed label (on back end paper): Fitz / Gerald's / Omar / Khayyam / with / Persian / Text / Thompson
Illustrated with an engraving by S.A. Kinsley
Inscribed in black ink (on frontispiece tissue): your sincere Friend / Johnson Fitzgerald
Printed on self-adhesive printed label (on back end paper): Fitz / Gerald's / Omar / Khayyam / with / Persian / Text / Thompson
Illustrated with an engraving by S.A. Kinsley
ProvenanceNotesGift from translator Eben Francis Thompson (1859-1939) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 10 April 1918.
Francis George Baring Northbrook
1889