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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 43
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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)
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wright, Elisabeth (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 17-67 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1899.
- 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 of the Rubaiyat but Nine Hundred and Twenty copies were printed and types then distributed. Each book is numbered, and this volume is No. ..."--Page [3].
- The text body is set in Caslon. The illustrations throughout the book were designed by W. W. Denslow and have his distinctive seahorse either in the drawing or next to it. This edition was printed in three colors on Boxmoor paper and bound in suede.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Alternating red and blue initial capitals, with gold accents, on quatrains; illustrations are hand-illumined.
- "So here endeth the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, as rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald and done into a book by me, Elbert Hubbard, at the Roycroft Shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, and completed March the Ninth MDCCCXCIX"--Colophon.
- 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 is number 401.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 49
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-035-99
- OCLC:
- 2135841
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