The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
1912 Dodge Hanscom Edition

This 1912 Dodge Publishing Company edition has beautiful colored versions of the art from Adelaide Hanscom. The illustrations are credited to both Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming in this edition, however. According to this page from the Getty Museum on a piece of art, Blanche Cumming was her studio partner.

The copy I have is in rough condition. Notably, there are two loose photos. I did not do a full page review to figure out if the loose photos go anywhere or if there are missing pages to match up with them or missing in general, but at a glance I could not find where the loose pictures go.

Publisher: Dodge Publishing Company (214-220 East Twenty-Third St., New York)

Year: 1912

Artist: Adelaide Hanscom

Added to Site: 2025-06-22

The Book Itself

There is a few instances of like…sliced paper nubs between pages. I am not sure what they are.

The illustrations have a protective page in front of them.

Cover

Marbled flyleaf

Title page

Dedication

Weird cut paper

Protective page for the art example

The Poetry

There seems to be a typo in the quatrain-art of LVIII… it says “and’t was—the grape” when it should be “and ‘twas—the grape”. Interesting since the actual copy in text does not include the typo.

Even more interesting since the version in the 1905 edition does not include this typo. The font is different too.

Quatrain I

Quatrain II & III

Quatrain IV & V

Quatrain VIII & IX

Part of quatrain VIII in art

Quatrain LV in art

Quatrain LVIII in Art - note, there seems to be a typo

Quatrain LVIII & LIX

The Illustrations

The illustrations are credited as ‘life studies by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming’. The pictures are affixed to a gray piece of paper that is tacked onto the page.

It is interesting comparing the 1905 version of the art to this one.

There were two pieces of loose art.