The lover's Rubáiyát / edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

Rittenhouse, Jessie B. (Jessie Belle), 1869-1948, editor.

Hobson, A. Eleanor, artist.

Small, Maynard & Company, publisher.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

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.

Genre:

Persian poetry

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Leachhoover (bookplate) ( (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[38] pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Cambridge, Mass. : University Press

Place of Publication:

Boston : Small, Maynard & Company, MCMIV [1904].

Notes:

Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, grouped into a Persian love song. The stanzas are drawn from the renderings of ten translators. cf Foreword.

"This first edition ... with a decorative border and an endpiece drawn by A. Eleanor Hobson ...is printed ... by The University Press at Cambridge, Mass ..."--Colophon.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has booksellers sticker on inside back cover: K. Gaisser, Books. Toledo, Ohio.

OCLC:

8491944