Since the appearance of this modest book more than two million copies have been sold in over two hundred editions, and it has been translated into almost all the tongues of modern Europe, as well as into Greek and Latin.Ī soiled and penciled copy of the rare original would readily bring $300, while an uncut copy is priceless. After many months, in January, 1859, FitzGerald recovered his neglected manuscript and made a re-draft of the poem, which he printed privately in an edition of 250 copies, most of which he gave to Quaritch, who had ill success in disposing of them, and the remainder were sold from a clearance box at a penny each. In 1857 FitzGerald completed his first draft of the poem and in January, 1858, sent it to Fraser's Magazine. Later Cowell sent him from India a transcript of the so-called Calcutta manuscript. Cowell discovered in the Bodleian library at Oxford a manuscript containing 158 quatrains of Omar Khayyam which he transcribed and sent to his friend and pupil Edward FitzGerald.
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