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Omar Khayyam

Male : Turkish
KHAYYAM AND THE RUBA'IYAT
1800-1850
M EPHINSTONE : An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
(1815 London)

1851-1875
F WOEPKE : L'Algebre d'Omar Alkhayyami
(1851 Paris)
The Rubaiyat ..
(by Edward Fitzgerald) (1859 Bernard Quaritch, London) 200-250 copies. Anon
[In the 1850s the Cambridge oriental scholar Edward B Cowell sent Fitzgerald the script from India
which he translated into English]

The Rubaiyat
(1862 PP in Madras) - 1st Indian edition from the English 1st Ed
The Rubaiyat ..
(by Edward Fitzgerald) (1868 Bernard Quaritch. 2nd Ed) - 500 copies. Anon
The Rubaiyat
(1st American edition, Pirated. nd or imprint) - c100 copies
The Rubaiyat ..
(by Edward Fitzgerald) (1872 Bernard Quaritch. 3rd Ed)

1876-1900
The Rubaiyat
(1878 Osgood) - 1st Official US Edition from English 3rd Ed
The Rubaiyat ..
(by Edward Fitzgerald) (1878 Bernard Quaritch. 4th Ed)
[This Edition also contains Fitzgerald's trans of the Salaman and Absal of Jami]
E H WHINFIELD : The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
(1883 & 1901, London)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(1884 Houghton Mifflin) - Elihu Vedder
+ De Luxe Ed of 100 on Japanese vellum
(Ed) William Aldis WRIGHT : Letters and Literary remains of Edward Fitzgerald
(1889 Macmillan) - 3 vols
J B NICHOLAS : Les Quatrains de Kheyam
(1897 Paris)
E HERON-ALLEN : The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
(1898 Boston)
[- a facsimile of the MS in the Bodleian Library]
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(1898 Macmillan) - W B Macdougall
E HERON-ALLEN : Edward Fitzgerald's Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam with Their
Original Persian Sources
(1899 London)

1901-1910
(1901 John Lane) + 375 De Luxe. Herbert Cole
(1901 Ballantyne Press) - Charles Ricketts. 320
(1902 Bell) - Robert Anning Bell
(1903 De La More Press) - Blanche McManus. + De Luxe 500
(1906 Gibbings) - Frank Brangwyn
(1907 Jack) - R T Rose
(1907 Nister) - T Heath Robinson
(1908 Sisley) - Edgar Wilson
(1908 Harrap) - Adelaide Hanscom
E HERON-ALLEN : The Second Edition of Edward Fitzgerald's Ruba'iyat
(1908 Duckworth)
(1909 A & C Black) - Gilbert James
(1909 Hodder & Stoughton) - Edmund Dulac + 750 De Luxe Signed
Signed Edition offered in 1999 for £600
(1909 Harrap) - Willy Pogany + 525 signed
(1909 T N Foulis) - Maurice Greiffenhagen
(1910 Foulis) - Frank Brangwyn
(1910 Routledge) - S W Lefeaux
(1910 Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell) - Alice Ross
(1910 The Studio, London) - Abanindro Nath Tagore
(1910 Harrap) - William G Easton

1911-1920
(c1911 D B Taroporevala, Bombay) - M K Sett
(1911 H R Allenson) - S C Vincent Jarvis
(1911 Siegle Hill) - Sangorski & Sutcliffe
(1911 Alice Harriman, US) - Isabel Hawxhurst Hall
(1912 Kegan Paul) - Mabel Eardley-Wilmot
(1913 Hodder & Stoughton) - Rene Bull. + De Luxe signed 250
(1913 Methuen) - Edmund J Sullivan
(1914 Harrap) - Adelaide Hanscom & Blanche Cumming
(1914 Routledge) - Jessie M King
(1920 Constable) - Ronald Balfour. + 50 de Luxe Ed

1921-1930
(1921 Leopold B Hill) - Doris M Palmer
(1921 Harper) - Wilfred J Jones
(1922 Bodley Head) - Ann Harriet Fish
(1923 Kegan Paul) - Hope Weston
(1925 Sampson Low) - Fred Adlington
(1926 Blackwell) - Thomas Lowinsky
(1928 Collins) - Charles Robinson
(1930 Golden Cockerel Press) - J Buckland Wright. 300
Offered in 1991 for £550 & 1995 for £475
(c1930 Simpkin Marshall) - Bernard Way
(1930 Harrap) - 750 signed. Willy Pogany
Signed Edition offered in 1999 for £620
(1930 Richard Smith, NY) - Ronald Balfour

1931-1940
(1931 Birmingham School of Printing) - Charles Meacham
(1934 Harrap) - New Pogany Edition
(1934 Ebenezer Baylis) - Joyce Francis
(1936 Collins) - Margaret Caird
(1937 Birmingham School of Printing) - Catherine Gebhard
(1940 Harrap) - Stephen Gooden. + 125 De Luxe

After 1941
(1941 Pocket Books) - Gordon Ross
(1944 Lewis, Leigh on Sea) - 1000. E A Cox
(1945 Lesley) - Webster Murray
(1945 Edgar Backus) - Anthony Rado
(1946 Grosset & Dunlap, NY) - Sarkis Katchadurian
(1947 Collins) - Robert Stewart Sherriffs
(1947 Muller) - George Buday
(1950 Ward Lock) - Otway McCannell
(1954 Collins) - Marjorie Anderson
(1955 Rodale Press) - Charles Stewart
(1958 Golden Cockerel Press) - 200. John Yunge Bateman
(1970 Folio Society) - Virgil Burnett

READING
E G BROWNE : Revised Translation of the Chahar Maqala
(1921 Cambridge & Leyden)
A C POTTER : A Bibliography of Printed Editions of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
in Foreign Languages
(1923 Rosemary Press, Worcester) - 200
F ROSEN : Ruba'iyat-i-Hakim Umar-i-Khayyam
(Persian Text) (1925 Berlin)
A CHRISTENSEN : Critical Studies in the Ruba'iyat of 'Umar-i-Khayyam
(1927 Copenhagen)
A C POTTER : A Bibliography of the Ruba'iyat
(1929 Ingpen & Grant) - 300
(Ed) M SHAFI : Tatimma siwan' ul-Hikma of 'Ali ibn. Zaid' ul-Baihaqi (Arabic Text) (1935 Lahore)
C REMPIS : Beitrage zur Hayyam-Forschung
(1937 Lepizig)
Swami Govinda TIRTHA : The Nectar of Grace - Omar Khayyam's Life and Works
(1941 Allahabad)
A M TERHUNE : The Life of Edward Fitzgerald
(1947 Oxford)
E G BROWNE : Literary History of Persia
(1951-6 Cambridge) - 4 vols
D S KASIR : The Algebra of Omar Khayyam
(1951 NY)
A J ARBERRY : The Romance of the Rubaiyat
(1959 London)
A PAGLIARO & A BAUSANI : Storia della letteratura persiana
(1960 Milan)
C E BOSWORTH : The Ghaznavids - Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, 944-1040
(1963 Edinburgh)
V MINORSKY : The Earliest Collections of O. Khayyam in Yadname-ye-Jan Rypka
(1967 Prague)
Peter AVERY & John HEATH STUBBS : Translation
(1979 Allen Lane)

G S HODGSON MARSHALL : Cambridge History of Iran

Related Writers

Edmund Dulac
Edinburgh
Edward Fitzgerald
Folio Society
Golden Cockerel Press
Willy Pogany
Charles Robinson


See also

John Buckland-wright
Everyman Series 501-1000
Foulis, T N
Robert Von Ranke Graves
Gregynog Press
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics