Quarto. [60pp]. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Bookplate of A. A. Piggot to FEP, with inked ownership inscription of the same dated 1910 to first blank fly-leaf. Spotting to endpapers and initial leaves.

A fine, vellum-bound edition of the Rubáiyát, the title which the material's original translator, Edward FitzGerald, gave his translation of a selection of Persian poems attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. This adaptation, 'done into verse' by Arthur B. Talbot, is derived from the literal prose translation completed by Edward Heron-Allen (1861-1943) in 1898.