The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace), 1856-1915.

Roycroft Shop.

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

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) (Roycroft 68)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, vii, 25-74 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycrofters, 1906.

Summary:

A republishing of FitzGerald's fourth ver.

Contents:

The Rubaiyat / Charles P. Nettleton

Omar Khayyam / by John Hay

The Rubaiyat.

Notes:

Title enclosed within woodcut border.

Blue and red initials; green head and tail pieces.

"So here endeth The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as translated into English by Edward FitzGerald and done into a printed book by the Roycrofters, at their shop in East Aurora, which is in Erie County, New York, in April, MCMVI"--Colophon.

Copyright 1906 by Elbert Hubbard.

The text body is set in Cheltenham and the limited edition of 103, depicted above, was printed on Imperial Japan Vellum and bound either in 3/4 or full leather. The regular edition was printed in seven colors on Ruisdael paper and bound in suede. For both editions, the title page and text initials were designed by W. W. Denslow and were first used in the September 10 1899 Rubaiyat, McKenna #50.The title page and colophon seen above although Denslow designed were modified for the square format of this book by John Comstock. These designs are both taller and narrower than the Denslow originals and lack his seahorse signature as seen in the 1899 design.----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.

Roycroft 68 is number 42 on Japan vellum. Bound in 3/4 leather; marbled paper over boards.

Roycroft 69 bound in full suede. Gilt title in large rectangular surround, with embossed moon and stars.

Cited in:

McKenna, P. Roycroft, 139

Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-120-06

Contains:

Nettleton, Charles P. (Charles Philip). Rubaiyat.

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Omar Khayyam.

OCLC:

7353907