The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam, Translated By Mrs. H.M. Cadell, with an Introduction By Richard Garnett
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1899. Octavo. Item #028760
144 pages, with an Introduction by Richard Garnett. Jessie E. Nash Cadell who learned Persian while her husband was a British officer in India, devoted herself to the study of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer and poet. Not only was this the first translation of the Rubaiyat done by a woman but it was far more accurate than the prevailing one by Edward Fitzgerald. She died in Florence, Italy in 1884 and her friend, Richard Garnett, who was Keep of the Books at the British Library saw to it that her work was published for the first time posthumously in 1899. Bound in green decorative gilt cloth, spine lettering gilt, bottom corner of upper board slightly bumped. A very nice copy.
Price: $265.00