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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Roycroft 72
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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)
- Physical Description:
- 59 pages ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Aurora, N.Y. : Roycrofters, 1926.
- Summary:
- A republishing of FitzGerald's fifth ver.
- Notes:
- "So here endeth "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," the poet astronomer of Naishapur, as rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. Done into print by the Roycrofters, this month of July, MCMXXVI."--Colophon.
- Title within ornamental borders. Printed in orange and black.
- A reissue of the pocket version, slipcased.
- Three different cover designs.
- 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 in slipcase. Bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource]
- Cited in:
- Potter, Ambrose G. Bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 232
- Ogle, David. On a high shelf, p. 284
- OCLC:
- 23707726
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