Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Author:Fitzgerald Color dust jacket art and interior b&w illustrations by J Yunge Bateman. This edition is presented in the same format and with the same illustrations as the Golden Cockerel Press edition. The text is that of the first edition of 1859, which contained Fitzgerald's original version. If is prefaced by Fitzgerald's biographical essay on Omar, in whi... more »ch he also discusses some of the problems and methods of translation. Includes the notes from that edition.« less