Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam : the astronomer-poet of Persia rendered into English verse / by Edward Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

E.W. Porter Company (Firm), active 1895, publisher.

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

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:

[8], 93 pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul [Minnesota] : E.W. Porter Company, M DCCC XCV [1895].

Contents:

To Omar Khayyám [by] Andrew Lang.- Omar Khayyám, the astronomer poet of Persia, by Edward Fitzgerald.- Rubáiyát: I. Text of first edition (1859) II. Text of fourth edition (1879) III. Quatrains printed in second edition only (1868) IV. Notes.

Notes:

Not in A.G. Potter, A bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

"This edition is limited to 750 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.

OCLC:

1039097000