Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / translated by Edward Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920, author of note.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Morris, William, 1834-1896, artist.

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, Sir, 1833-1898, artist.

Phaidon Press, publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Rubāʻīyāt. English

Language:

English

Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)

Subjects (All):

Morris, William, 1834-1896--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

Morris, William.

Persian poetry--Translations into English.

Persian poetry.

Calligraphy.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Manuscripts.

Translations.

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:

21, [3] pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Phaidon, 1981.

Credits:

"I finished my work on this book on the sixteenth of October 1872. W. Morris" - Verso of page 23.

Notes:

Title from first page of text.

Written out and illuminated by William Moris, 1872. Some of the figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones.- From note by G.B.J. (Georgiana Burne-Jones) dated September 1908 and reproduced in facsimile on 2 leaves.

Reproduced in facsimile.

Bound in morocco grain leather. In green floral slipcase.

Limited to 850 copies.

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 is number 319.

ISBN:

0714822485

9780714822488

OCLC:

1001903687