NMLP P-035139 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
translated by Edward FitzGerald · Bernard Quaritch (London) · 1859
FitzGerald substantially rewrote the poem for a second edition (1868, 110 quatrains), a third edition (1872, 101 quatrains), and a fourth edition (1879, also 101 quatrains but further revised in wording), each textually distinct from the 1859 text; any edition naming FitzGerald as translator on the title page, or numbering other than seventy-five quatrains, is a later, textually different edition, not the anonymous 1859 pamphlet. Innumerable illustrated gift-book printings of the Rubaiyat appeared from the 1880s onward and are later still.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-035139 for "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by translated by Edward FitzGerald (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035139, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).