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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / as rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 44
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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)
- Grainger, Gertrude (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- 55 leaves ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [East Aurora, N.Y.] : [Roycroft shop], [1900]
- Notes:
- Text and blank pages alternating in pairs.
- Title and text within hand-illumined ornamental border.
- The text is calligraphy printed from plates. McKenna attributes the calligraphy to Samuel Warner. This book is listed in the 1900 catalog as an edition of 925 but it was an edition of 1000.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Printed in four colors on Boxmoor paper, bound in suede. Three line gilt title in rectangular surround.
- "Of this edition of the Rubaiyat but 1000 copies were printed and the plates then destroyed. Each book is numbered."
- 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 778. Signed by Hubbard. Illumined by Gertrude Grainger.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 64
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-054-00
- OCLC:
- 35055062
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