The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
1965 Reprint Collins Sherriffs Edition
This 1965 Collins edition with illustrations by Robert Stewart Sherriffs is a reprint, with the original seemingly from 1947. It looks like a reprint of the same line as this 1979 edition
It has a beautiful leather cover and comes with a case. My copy has plastic protective jacket over the cover. I took it off for some of the photos.
Update 09/2023: Updated the layout, tweaked page copy, added more pictures.
Publisher: Collins (London and Glasgow)
Press: Collins Clear-Type Press (London and Glasgow)
Year: 1965
Artist: Robert Stewart Sherriffs
Introduction(s) by: Laurence Housman (also one by G. F. Maine)
The Book Itself
The Poetry
The Illustrations
The artwork by Sherriffs is simply stunning. So bold. Some of the most distinctive illustrations for a Rubaiyat that I have ever seen.
