The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / translated by Edward FitzGerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Driggs, Helen I., illustrator.

Osborne, Judith Barbour, designer, decorator.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Running Press miniature edition

Standardized Title:

Rubāʻīyāt. English

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam. Rubāʻīyāt.

Omar Khayyam.

Miniature books--Specimens.

Miniature books.

Genre:

Printed books -- 20th century -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens.

quatrains.

Quatrains

Specimens

Quatrains.

Miniature books (Printing)

Miniature books

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

[80] unnumbered pages ; 84 mm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1989.

Notes:

"A Running Press Miniature Edition™"--Title-page verso.

Translation of: Rubāʻīyāt.

"This book has been bound using handcraft methods, and Smythe-sewn to ensure durability."--Colophon.

The dust jacket was designed by Toby Schmidt and illustrated by Helen I. Driggs. The interior was designed by Judith Barbour Osborne. Text decoration was designed and executed by Judith Barbour Osborne and Richard Conklin. The text was typeset in Berkeley Old Style by Commcor Communications Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."--Colophon.

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1-3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copIes 1-3 have dustjackets retained

Running Press copy 3 is "1" printing.

ISBN:

0894717170

9780894717178

OCLC:

21409849