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So this then is a book of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / done into English by Edward FitzGerald ; with an introduction by Clarence S. Darrow.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 67
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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)
- DeGrange, A. W. (autograph, Xmas 1904) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- xl pages, 54 unnumbered pages ; 15 x 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1904.
- Contents:
- The Rubáiyát / Charles P. Nettleton
- A Persian pearl
- The Rubaiyat.
- Notes:
- Title within ornamental border.
- Initials in red.
- "So here endeth the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the poet-astronomer of Naishapur, as renedered into English by Edward Fitzgerald. Done into a printed book by the Roycrofters at their shop, which is in East Aurora, New York. August, MCMIV"--Colophon.
- The text is printed in Scotch Roman on Boxmoor paper, bound in suede.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Copyright 1904 by Elbert Hubbard.
- 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 bound in full suede, with gilt title in amorphous surround on cover.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 107
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-091-04
- Contains:
- Nettleton, Charles P. (Charles Philip). Rubaiyat.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt. English. So this then is a book of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
- OCLC:
- 3673257
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