Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with Paintings and Decorations by Sarkis Katchadourian

Beautiful paintings and b/w drawings by Katchdourian. "Special contents of this edition are copyrighted MCMXLVI by Gosset & Dunlap, Inc. - Sarkis Katchadourian was born in Iran; it was there that his world famous re-creations of the romantic frescoes in old palaces were painted. - Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century.