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• Persian Literature (2-volume collection), by Firdawsī, Omar Khayyam, Hafiz, and Sa'di, ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil, trans. by James Atkinson, Herman Bicknell, Edward FitzGerald, and James Ross
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Oriental Tales (spine title of set of 15 volumes, each with its own title page; London: Athenaeum, 18984-1897), ed. by John Payne, contrib. by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Thomas-Simon Gueullette, and Leonard C. Smithers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales, anecdotes, and letters (Printed by J. and W. Eddowes for T. Cadell, jun., and Davies, 1800), by Jonathan Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persian & Turkish tales (Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1739), by François Pétis de La Croix, Richard Ware, and William King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Persian letters: (Printed for subscribers only, 1901), by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of Persian literature under Tartar dominion (A.D, 1265-1502) (The University press, 1920), by Edward Granville Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literature of Persia (Colonial Press, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persian literature... (The Colonial press, 1900), by James Ross, Sa'di, Herman Bicknell, 14th cent Ḥāfiẓ, Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyam, James Atkinson, and Richard J. H. Gottheil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A literary history of Persia. (Fisher, Unwin, 1902), by Edward Granville Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Persian literature ... (The Colonial Press, 1900), by Sa'di, active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyam, Firdawsī, and Richard J. H. Gottheil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persian literature : with a special introd. by Richard J.H. Gottheil. (P.F. Collier, 1900), by Richard J. H. Gottheil (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rubáʼiyat of Háfiz (J. Murray, 1910), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, L. Cranmer-Byng, and ʼAbd Majid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí, by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi, ed. by F. Hadland Davis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Persian Mystics: Jámí, by Jami, ed. by F. Hadland Davis (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Epic of Kings (retellings of portions of Firdawsi's Shah Nameh), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Episodes From the Shah Nameh: or, Annals of the Persian Kings (in English and Pahlavi; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by Firdawsī, ed. by Stephen Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shah Nameh: Stories Retold from Firdusi (New York: E.C. Hill, 1906), by Helen Zimmern, contrib. by Firdawsī and Julius Mohl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia, as found in the adventures and improvisations of Kurroglou, the bandit-minstrel of northern Persia and in the songs of the people inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea (Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, and sold by W.H. Allen, 1842), by Alexander Chodźko and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pahlavi texts (The Clarendon press, 1880), by Edward William West (page images at HathiTrust)

• The tales of the genii (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent ;, 1800), by Charles Morell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Rose Garden of Persia (London: Gibbings, 1899), ed. by Louisa Stuart Costello, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Persian poetry, from the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi (The Macmillan Company, 1920), by A. V. Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : in English verse (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1888), by Omar Khayyam, Michael Kerney, Edward FitzGerald, and Michael Kearney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The press and poetry of modern Persia : partly based on the manuscript work of Mírzá Muhammad "Alí Khán "Tarbiyat" of Tabríz (University press, 1914), by Edward Granville Browne and Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān Tarbiyat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Persian anthology. (Methuen & co., ltd., 1927), by Edward Granville Browne, J. B. Atkins, and E. Denison Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Háfiz̤ of Shíráz : selections from his poems (Trübner & co., 1875), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, Algernon Sidney Bicknell, and Herman Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers from Persian poets. (Thomas Y. Crowell & co., 1901), by Nathan Haskell Dole, Belle Maude Walker, Ralph T. H. Griffith, William Jones, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Louisa Stuart Costello, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, E. H. Whinfield, Edward A. Johnson, James Atkinson, Jami, 14th cent Hāfiz, Sa'di, Tusī Asadī, Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Omar Khayyam, and Firdawsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Islamic poetry (The University press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, fl 1220 al-ʻAufī, and Abū al-ʻAlā. Luzūm mā lam yalzam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (London : Gibbings & Company ; Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1909., 1909), by Omar Khayyam, Frank Brangwyn, Joseph Jacobs, Edward FitzGerald, and Morrison and Gibb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rose garden of Persia (T.N. Foulis, 1924), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rose garden of Persia. (Gibbings, 1899), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rose garden of Persia. (G. Bell, 1887), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyām, the astronomer-poet of Persia : rendered into English verse (Houghton, Mifflin] :, 1900), by Omar Khayyam, Bruce Rogers, William Augustus Brown, Edward FitzGerald, Mifflin and Company Houghton, and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers of the East (Hamilton, Adams, & co., 1833), by Ebenezer Pocock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rose garden of Persia. (T.N. Foulis, 1913), by Louisa Stuart Costello and Omar Khayyam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Odes from the Divan of Hafiz (Duckworth, 1905), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ and Richard Le Gallienne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Persian poets (Crowell, 1901), by Belle M. Walker and Nathan Haskell Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rose garden of Persia. (Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845), by Louisa Stuart Costello and Vizetelly Brothers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám (Dodge, 1905), by Omar Khayyam, Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Edward FitzGerald, and George Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of India (Sufi Pub. Society, 1915), by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flowers from Persian gardens : selections from the poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyám, and others (R.H. Russell, 1902), by Edward S. Holden and Mass.) University Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rose garden of Persia (John Slark, 1888), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographies of Persian poets : (S. Austin ;, 1901), by fl. 1330-1340 Ḥamd Allāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī and Edward Granville Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A specimen of Persian poetry; or, Odes of Hafez: with an English translation and paraphrase. Chiefly from the Specimen poeseos persicae of Baron Revizky ... With historical and grammatical illus., and a complete analysis ... (Printed by and for the editor, 1802), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, Stephen Weston, S. Rousseau, and John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persian poetry for English readers: being specimens of six of the greatest classical poets of Persia: Ferdusī, Nizāmī, Sādi, Jelāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī, Hāfiz, and Jāmī, with biographical notices and notes. (M'Laren & son, printers] Printed for private circulation, 1883), by Samuel Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Persian poetry : from the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi (AMS Press, 1975), by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers from Persian poets (Thomas Y. Crowell & co., 1901), by Nathan Haskell Dole, Belle Maude Walker, Ralph T. H. Griffith, William Jones, Edward B. Eastwick, Louisa Stuart Costello, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, Edward Benry Whinfield, Edward Armstrong Johnson, James Atkinson, Jami, active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, Sa'di, Tusī Asadī, Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Omar Khayyam, and Firdawsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Persian anthology being translations from the Persian (Dutton, 1927), by Edward Granville Browne, J. B. Atkins, and E. Denison Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rose garden of Persia (Page, 1902), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rose garden of Persia. (Gibbings & Co., 1911), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bustan of Sadi: Translated from the Persian with an introduction, by Sa'di, trans. by A. Hart Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance, ed. by W. A. Clouston, trans. by William Ouseley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Norton F. W. Hazeldine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse, by Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald, illust. by Edmund Dulac (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál: Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jami, and Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (Gutenberg ebook)

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