Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . m Edward Fitzgerald Fitzgeralds fame, and to the intellectual gratifi-cation of many thousands of readers, when hetook his little packet of Rubdiyydt to Mr. Quaritchin the latter part of the year 1858. It was printedas a small quarto pamphlet, bearing the pub-lishers name but not the authors; and althoughapparently a complete failure at first, — a failurewhich Mr. Fitzgerald regretted less on his ownaccount than on that of his publisher, to whomhe had generously made a present of the book, —received, nevertheless, a sufficient distribu
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . m Edward Fitzgerald Fitzgeralds fame, and to the intellectual gratifi-cation of many thousands of readers, when hetook his little packet of Rubdiyydt to Mr. Quaritchin the latter part of the year 1858. It was printedas a small quarto pamphlet, bearing the pub-lishers name but not the authors; and althoughapparently a complete failure at first, — a failurewhich Mr. Fitzgerald regretted less on his ownaccount than on that of his publisher, to whomhe had generously made a present of the book, —received, nevertheless, a sufficient distribution bybeing quickly reduced from the price of fiveshillings and placed in the box of cheap booksmarked a penny each. Thus forced into circula-tion, the two hundred copies which had beenprinted were soon exhausted. Among the buyerswere Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mr. Swinburne,Captain (now Sir Richard) Burton, and Simpson, the accomplished artist of the.
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