Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / rendered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; the text of the first edition illustrated by Arthur Szyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951, illustrator.

Ingham, Ernest, 1894-1976, compositor.

Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Sun Engraving Co., engraver.

Fanfare Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam--Translations into English.

Omar Khayyam.

Persian poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- English Monotype Sachsenwald.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Albertus (Monotype).

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bahnsen, Alvin C. W. (stamp) (donor)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

London, England : Fanfare Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Heritage Club, 1940.

Language Note:

In English: translated from Persian.

Notes:

Text and plates printed on folded leaves in Japanese style.

"The illustrations for this edition were drawn in colour and gold by Arthur Szyk, and engraved in London by the Sun Engraving Company. The text was set , and the pages made-up in English Monotype Sachsenwald with Albertus Capitals, to the design and under the direction of Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press, in London."--Colophon.

In slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.

OCLC:

3466527