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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / rendered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; the text of the first edition illustrated by Arthur Szyk.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection PK6513 .A1 1940
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Language:
- English
- Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)
- Subjects (All):
- Omar Khayyam--Translations into English.
- Omar Khayyam.
- Persian poetry--Translations into English.
- Persian poetry.
- Genre:
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- English Sachsenwald (Monotype)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Albertus (Monotype)
- Physical Description:
- [1, 24] pages on fold. leaves, [8] fold. leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Heritage Club, 1940.
- Notes:
- Printed on one side of double leaf, the printed pages facing each other.
- "The illustrations for this edition were drawn in colour and gold by Arthur Szyk, and engraved in London by the Sun Engraving Company. The text was set, and the pages made-up in English Monotype Sachsenwald with Albertus Capitals, to the design and under the direction of Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press, in London"--Colophon.
- Athenaeum copy: "The Heritage Club Sandglass. No. 3EX" (4 p.) laid in.
- OCLC:
- 3466527
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