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