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The Art of Omar Khayyam. Illustrating FitzGerald's Rubaiyat. William H. Martin & Sandra Mason
London-New York, Tauris, 2007
184 p. Index
ISBN 978-84511-282-0


Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Illustrating FitzGerald's Rubaiyat
- A unique publishing phenomenon
- Illustrating The Rubaiyat
- A century of change in illustration
- Still popular - at home and abraod
Part 2: Illustrating individual quatrains
- Presenting the quatrains
- Illustrations for FitzGerald's first edition - quatrains 1-75
- Illustrations for FitzGerald's other editions of The Rubaiyat
- Illustrations unrelated to specific quatrains
Appendix 1. Publishers and illustrators of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat
Appendix 2. Artists who have illustrated FitzGerald's Rubaiyat
Appendix 3. Published versions of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam Appendix 4. Omar Khayyam and his Rubaiyat
Appendix 5. FitzGerald and his Rubaiyat
Notes
Select bibliography
Index