Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam TOUSSAINT (Franz) and ZENKER (P) Paris, Piazza (no.9 of the coll. "Ex Oriente Lux"), 1924. Duodecimo (12mo) of VIII ff + 170pp. Beautiful copy. Full blue sheepskin binding with a blind-stamped arabesque design on the covers. Cover preserved. Spine with 4 raised bands, slightly sunned. Frontispiece by P. Zenker. Printing with colored typographic framing on each page, initial letters and ornamentations. Tenth Edition. This is a collection of poems, written in Persian, attributed to the Persian writer and scholar Omar Khayyam (1048-1131). The translation of "rubaïyat" is "quatrains".