Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám / by Edward FitzGerald (author's final revision) ; with the literal Omar, being a version of those quatrains of the original upon which FitzGerald's poem was based ; edited by Arthur Guiterman ; with eight illustrations by Gilbert James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Guiterman, Arthur, 1871-1943, editor.

Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer.

James, Gilbert, illustrator.

Sichel, Harold, illustrator.

Paul Elder and Company, 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--Translations into English.

Quatrains, Persian--Translations into English.

Persian poetry.

Quatrains, Persian.

Genre:

Translations.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xii, 85, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

[Guiterman edition].

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Paul Elder and Company, 1909.

Language Note:

In English, translated from Persian.

Notes:

Title page in red and black; marginalia in red.

Includes half-title.

"The decorations and embellishments ... are the handiwork of Harold Sichel"--Colophon. The decorations are mounted on leaves with captions.

Imprinted under the direction of John H. Nash. The pictures by Gilbert James. -- Colophon.

Issued in three states, Naishapur, Wilderness and Tentmakers editions--(cf. Potter).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilian-Wieck Collection copy has dust wrapper. In case.

Cited in:

Potter, A.G. Bibliography of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 330

OCLC:

1242104