Omar resung / by Charles G. Blanden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanden, Charles G. (Charles Granger), 1857-1933, author.

Contributor:

McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936, bibliographic antecedent.

Omar Khayyam., bibliographic antecedent.

Langworthy, A. G. (Alfred G.), printer, bookseller.

Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942, printer, bookseller.

Rae, Frank B., Jr., -1937, book designer.

Blue Sky Press, printer, bookseller.

Van Gelder Zonen, papermaker.

H.W. Caslon & Co., type designer.

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

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt--Translations into English.

Persian poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Japan vellum (Paper)

Unopened edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Case bindings (Binding)

Gilt edges (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Leather bindings (Binding)

Printed paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[124] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Blue Sky Press, [1901]

Language Note:

Versification of Justin H. McCarthy's English translation of: Rubāʻīyāt.

Notes:

"Here endeth Omar resung, being verses by Charles G. Blanden after the prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as set forth by Justin Huntly McCarthy, M.P. The cover, title page, and end papers were designed by Frank B. Rae, Jr. The whole being printed and sold by Langworthy & Stevens at the House of the Blue Sky Press, 4732 Kenwood Avenue in Chciago, Illinois. Done in September, MCMI."--Colophon.

"Of this book there have been printed 200 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper, and 25 copies on Japan vellum; this copy being number [blank]"--Limitation statement.

"200 Van Gelder ... 15 J[apan] V[ellum] , full calf ..."--Ransom.

Without pagination.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 7 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), initialed by printer A.G. Langworthy, of a limited edition of 225 copies. See limitation statement.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has printer's advertisement for this edition laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy bound in full calf; boards and head and tail of spine ruled in gold; title stamped in gold on left board; title and author's surname stamped in gold on spine; endpapers printed in red; gilt tops; untrimmed edges; some leaves unopened at fore-edge.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, page 220, number 20

Related Work:

McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam., bibliographic antecedent.

Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt, bibliographic antecedent.

OCLC:

1336015038