DOLE, Nathan Haskell (editor). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. English, French, German, Italian, and Danish Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the Text of Edward Fitzgerald’s Version with Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. 1898.
Two volumes, 8vo. Original cream cloth, ornamented and lettered in red and gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; pp. [ii], clxxix, [i], 203, [1]; vi, [v], 208-655, [1], frontispiece to each volume and 15 further tissue-guarded plates; light spotting to bindings and endpapers, otherwise very good.
First Page and Company 'Multi-Variorum Edition' (polyglot), with extensive critical apparatus by the American translator and journalist Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935).
One of the more unusual Rubáiyát editions we encountered.
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