The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator, illuminator.

Limited Editions Club, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Rubāʻīyāt. English

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Persian poetry--Translated into English.

Genre:

Morocco bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1935.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copes)

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Physical Description:

[80] pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Limited Editions Club, 1935.

Language Note:

In English, translated from Persian.

Notes:

"Edward Fitzgerald's translation into English quatrains ... a definitive text carefully selected from his five differing versions"--Page [1].

"This edition ... was decorated, designed and illuminated by hand by Valenti Angelo; fifteen hundred copies were printed ... and ... signed by Valenti Angelo"--Colophon.

Text within ornamental borders.

Printed on double leaves.

Issued in decorative morocco binding, with slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 & 2015.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 1 is number 371. Signed.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 is number 1345. Signed. No slipcase.

Cited in:

Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 75

Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 75

OCLC:

1277726