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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A SCARCE EDITION - only 2 others for sale, both priced over £250 with shipping! pp.vi, 204 pages, a Good plus hardback, publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine & front cover. Top page edges gold gilt. Ex-university library. Scarce translation of the Rubaiyat done by Johnson, from the Lucknow manuscript. Contains 762 quatrains done in a poetic, rhyming style similar to Fitzgerald but aiming to accurately convey the original meaning. It was common to attribute such quatrains to Khayyam and some that appear in the manuscript are surely the work of other poets, as Johnson notes, but he 'took the work as it was found'. Blind stamped decorated cloth, spine a little dust dulled.…