(RUBÁIYÁT.) Omar Khayyám. The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. English translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Folio, publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, spine and joints reinforced, with cloth repairs to spine ends; hinges reinforced, early owner's ink signature on front free endpaper, image of Vedder mounted to verso. First trade edition with the Vedder illustrations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884