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Rubáiyát / de Omar Kháyyám ; illustrations de Edmond Dulac.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Standardized Title:
- Rubāʻīyāt. French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Persian
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Page, Robert N. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 55 unnumbered leaves, 8 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of mounted plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Manufacture:
- Paris : Gauthier-Villars.
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Rubáiyát de Omar Kháyyám de Naishápúr
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : L'édition d'art H. Piazza, [1910]
- Notes:
- Publication date supplied from Potter's Bibliography.
- "Cette traduction a été faite par Edmond Dulac d'après la version poétique de Edward Fitzgerald."--verso of half-title page.
- 110 quatrains from the second edition of FitzGerald's translations.--cf. Potter.
- "Omar Kháyyám, l'astronome poète persan": p. [5]-[10].
- Title and ornamental border on front wrapper and decoration on rear wrapper printed in gilt on Japanese vellum.
- Title, text, and mounted plates within decorative borders.
- Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
- "Il a été tiré a part pour les bibliophiles 500 suites numérotées des vingt compositions en couleurs qui illustraient l'édition princeps du Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayyam. Ces gravures sont présentées dans un encadrement spécial en couleurs et or et renfermées dans un portefeuille d'amateur. Elles peuvent aussi être jointes comme une suite à part dans les exemplaires de l'ouvrage."--p. [5] at end.
- This edition issued in two states.--cf. Potter.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has a ms. inscription, in ink, on the title page, signed "Gino", and dated April 24, 1965.
- Cited in:
- Potter, A. G. Bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyáam, 425
- OCLC:
- 35186684
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