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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald ; with the address of John Hay at the Omar Khayyam Club, London.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 42
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Standardized Title:
- Rubāʻīyāt. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, vi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 17-67 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 x 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycroft Shop, 1898.
- Summary:
- A republishing of FitzGerald's fourth ver.
- Contents:
- The Rubaiyat [poem] / Charles P. Nettleton
- Omar Khayyam: address delivered December 8, 1897 at the dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club, London / Hon. John Hay
- The Rubaiyat / Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald, tr.).
- Notes:
- "Of this edition ... six hundred and seventy copies were printed and types then distributed"--Prelimimary p. [3].
- "So here endeth the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, as rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald. Done into a book by me, Elbert Hubbard, at the Roycroft Shop, that is in East Aurora, New York, and completed this second day of November MDCCCXCVIII"--Colophon.
- Illuminated initials.
- The text body is set in Old Style Antique. This edition was printed in three colors on Dickinson paper and bound in suede.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Local Notes:
- Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in full suede, title page illumined, other pictorial initials. Number 28 of 670.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 30
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-029-98
- Other Format:
- Online version: Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt. English. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
- OCLC:
- 981421
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