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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : being a reprint of Edward FitzGerald's 4th English translation with page borders and illustrations from original designs / by Blanche McManus.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1029
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Omar Khayyam, author.
- McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly), 1860-1936, author of foreword.
- Standardized Title:
- Rubāʻīyāt. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Persian poetry--Translations.
- Persian poetry.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Translations -- 19th century.
- 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:
- [32] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Printed for and Published by M.F. Mansfield and A. Wessels, MDCCCXCIX [1899].
- Notes:
- Title and quatrains within green-colored ornamental alternating rose and grape border designs.
- Foreword (page [3]) by McCarthy.
- Plates have illustrations accompanied by related text passages, all printed in green.
- Endpapers have ornamental grape design with text from quatrain 12 underneath.
- 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:
- Potter, Ambrose G. Bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 233 ("new" ed.)
- OCLC:
- 61368688
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