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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 70
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Standardized Title:
- Rubāʻīyāt. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 21-71 pages ; 15 x 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1908.
- Contents:
- The Rubaiyat / Charles P. Nettleton
- Omar Khayyam / by John Hay
- The Rubaiyat.
- Notes:
- Title enclosed within ornamental border; initials. Ornaments printed in green, purple, and brown.
- "So here then 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, during September, Nineteen Hundred and Eight"--Colophon.
- Copyright 1908 by Elbert Hubbard.
- The text is printed in Bookman and bound in suede, limp leather or paper over boards with suede spine. The decorations are by Dard Hunter.----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 is bound in full suede. Gilt title in rectangular surround with Denslow ornaments.
- Cited in:
- McKenna, P. Roycroft, 173
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-148-08
- Contains:
- Nettleton, Charles P. (Charles Philip). Rubaiyat.
- Hay, John, 1838-1905. Omar Khayyam.
- OCLC:
- 2459004
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