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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Ballantyne 21
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Persian poetry--Translations into English.
- Persian literature--Poetry.
- Persian poetry.
- Local Subjects:
- Persian literature--Poetry.
- 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)
- Pye, William A. (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxx, [2] page : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Ballantyne Press
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hacon and Ricketts, MDCCCCI [1901].
- New York : John Lane
- Notes:
- Page [xxxii] blank.
- Illustration and first page of text within woodcut borders; stanza numbers, pagination, and colophon in red.
- Colophon: Here ends the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. The text of this edition is that of MDCCCLIX. The decoration of this book has been designed by Charles Ricketts, and the frontispiece designed and engraved by him. Printed by the Ballantyne Press, London, MDCCCCI. Sold by Hacon and Ricketts, London, & by John Lane, New York.
- Paper bears the Vale Press watermark.
- One of 310 copies printed on paper.
- Half cloth binding with blue paper boards. Printed title label on front cover.
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Watry, M. Vale Press, B32
- OCLC:
- 42264436
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