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McCarthy, J.H. [1889]

Justin Huntly McCarthy (1859 - 1936) was an Irish author and nationalist politician. He was member of Parliament, and wrote various novels, plays, poetical pieces and short histories, and in 1889 he published prose translations of 466 quatrains of the Rubáiyát.
These were published by David Nutt in 1889, with a reprint in 1898, and were reissued by Thomas B. Mosher in 1896 in his Bibelot series.
A number 373 quatrains were published by David Nutt and by Brentano's in 1898, with a reprint of the Brentano edition in 1920.

McCarthy's translations were also included in a number of volumes together with the translations of FitzGerald, Whinfield and others.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Justin Huntly McCarthy. In the Strand, David Nutt, 1889. lxii+clviii p.

Potter 348 - McCarthy Edition

Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. In English prose by Justin Huntly McCarthy. London, David Nutt, 1898. vii, 111 p.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated into English prose by Justin Huntly McCarthy. Printed for Thomas B. Mosher and published by him at 45 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine, Mdcccxcvi

Potter 351 - McCarthy Edition