This is an edition of the Rubáiyát that caught my eye due to the simple, standard nature of it. Many editions had a gimmick, or a way to catch your eye, beause they were intended to be given as gifts. My edition, marked as edition #78, was a gift book, as we'll get into, but it almost seems to be a study edition the way it is bound as almost a journal.

This edition is missing soe information. The date of publication is unknown, but we know its in the 1900's. The publisher is New York, Sully and Kleintech, a company that was active into the 21st century, so no date can be given.  

Visually, the edition looks like a notebook. It is brown and leather bound, and has a touch that is similar to old time journals in that it is dry and sandy but also leather and clearly a soft material. It is a soft cover book, but has a sturyd bind. The pages are the most unique thing about it- they are urrounded by red flowe patterns. These patterns strike me as what we learned in class,... more

This edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is published by Collins Clear-Type Press in London and Glasgow sometime in the late 1940s to early 1950s. It contains both FitzGerald's First and Second translations of Omar Khayyám's poems.

This specific edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was published by Random House in 1947. The collection of poems is believed to be written by Omar Khayyám and translated into english by Edward Fitzgerald. This edition of the Rubáiyát is a complete reprint of the first edition, and the combined third, fourth and fifth editions. 

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Illustrated by Ronald Balfour