NMLP P-035137 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

translated by Edward FitzGerald · Bernard Quaritch (London) · 1859

FitzGerald privately commissioned an edition of about 250 wrappered copies from a Covent Garden printer and arranged for Quaritch's name and address to appear as though publishing it; sales were so poor that Quaritch eventually sold remaining copies from a discount box

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035137 for "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by translated by Edward FitzGerald (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035137, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).