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What turned out to be a non-existent Persian manuscript from Afghanistan was claimed to be the basis for the following "translation," in reality based on the nineteenth-century version of Edward FitzGerald:
The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. A new translation by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah. Doubleday & Company Inc. Garden City, New York, 1968.
"Between 1968 and 1973 virtually every eminent Persicologist in Britain, America, and Iran pronounced against the ‘Jan Fishan Khan MS’ and the Graves-Shah ‘translation’: none for it. Credit for first exposing the hoax goes to L. P. Elwell-Sutton for his ‘The Omar Khayyam Puzzle’ (Royal Central Asiatic Journal LV/2, June 1968, pp. 167–79); credit for burying it to J. C. E. Bowen for his ‘The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Assessment of Robert Graves’ and Omar Ali Shah’s ‘translation’ (Iran: Journal of Persian Studies Vol. XI 1973, pp. 63–73)."

The Famous Luxury Edition of Omar Khayyam, actually lost on the Titanic (the printed English translation, not an original Persian manuscript)

Lost On The Titanic By Rob Shepherd

A limited edition printing which chronicles the production of the greatest of Sangorski & Sutcliff's Peacock bindings - "The Great Omar." The book is considered to be one of the greatest bindings of all time and was lost with the sinking of the Titanic. Limited to 1000 copies in letterpress with 11 color plates. Available in loose sheets. Available from Talas Bookbinder supply.

"the most outstanding and equally tragic binding of the 20th century involving the Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding on the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (placed on the 1884 large paper Houghton Mifflin edition illustrated by Elihu Vedder)" -- see the account of Philip R. Bishop of Mosher Books