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Heron-Allen, Edward [1898]

Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943) published three volumes on the Rubáiyát. The first one was reprinted within six months in a revised and enlarged edition, including an essay that had appeared as a pamphlet called 'Some sidelights'. Heron-Allen was a man with a wide range of hobbies and interests, such as Persian literature, marine zoology, meteorology and heraldry to mention only a few.

The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyám. Being a facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a transcript into modern Persian characters. Translated, with an introduction and notes, and a bibliography by Edward Heron-Allen. London, H.S. Nichols, 1898. xii, xlii, 288 pp.

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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyám. Being a facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a transcript into modern Persian characters. Translated, with an introduction and notes, and a bibliography and some sidelights upon Edward FitzGerald's poem by Edward Heron-Allen. Second edition carefully revised and considerably enlarged. London, H.S. Nichols, 1898. xii, xlii, 320 pp.