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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1909 Omar Khayyam
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Standardized Title:
- Rubāʻīyāt. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding).
- Poems -- 1909.
- Physical Description:
- [60] leaves, [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]
- Notes:
- Title within decorative border.
- Half-title.
- Color plates accompanied by tissue guardsheets with descriptive letterpress.
- Imprint date from NUC pre-1956.
- "Printed by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2008.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).
- Athenaeum copy has bookplate of Percie Trowbridge Hopkins, inscribed: Christmas, 1917; bound in blue embossed cloth with gilt pictorial on front board and decorated endpapers.
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