London: Centaur Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; One corner of spine tail bumped. DJ has very light wear to edges, short wrinkle to front cover at head of spine, price clipped. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "Edward FitzGerald, the least productive of the great Victorians, wrote the best letters of his age." A selection of the personal corresponde nce of this famed translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and author of lesser and forgotten literature. The correspondants were his friends: artist, poet, sculptor, dean, librarian, vicar, bank clerk, farmer, maltster, essayist, rector, and others. The topics were varied, such as politics, the theater, the editing of books, translation, country houses and country living, the restoration of paintings, etc: all show the thoughts of a learned, cultured Victorian Englishman. This edition is a compilation of selected letters and excerpts from the four volume set edited by Aldis Wright. Introduction. List and description of the correspondants. Has a couple of proofreader's marks on the last couple of pages: possibly a post-publishing proofing copy or previously owned by someone who just couldn't let an error pass uncorrected. Absolutely clean, bright, Near Fine copy in a VG+ DJ. Includes ephemera: a printed, extensive review of a four volume set of FitzGerald's letters. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 275 pages .