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Selected Verse and Illustrations from
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
illustrated by Edmund Sullivan.

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Illustrator's Edmund Sullivan image of a skull wearing a garland of roses has become part of American counter culture. In the late Sixties, legendary San Francisco rock band the Grateful Dead adopted it as an insignia and used it as an album cover.

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