Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / rendered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald ; the text of the first edition, illustrated by Arthur Szyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951, illustrator.

Ingham, Ernest, 1894-1976, compositor.

Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Sun Engraving Co., engraver.

Fanfare Press, printer.

George Macy Companies, Inc., copyright holder.

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

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam--Translations into English.

Omar Khayyam.

Persian poetry--Translations into English.

Persian poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type Evidence) -- English Monotype Sachsenwald.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Albertus (Monotype).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged), [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

London, England : Fanfare Press

Place of Publication:

New York : The Heritage Press, [1946]

Language Note:

In English: translated from Persian.

Notes:

Text and plates printed on folded leaves in Japanese style. Color plates on glossy paper.

Reissue of first edition published in 1940 by Heritage Press--George Macy publishing website.

Issued with Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter no. 1:36R.

"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 Fanfare Press, in London."--Colophon.

"The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1946, by the Heritage Press for The George Macy Companies, Inc."--verso of title page.

In slipcase.

Local Notes:

Quarter bound publisher's blue cloth over cream boards with blue decoration, gilt lettering on spine. In gold slipcase.

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

OCLC:

36739193