Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / by Edward Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Omar Khayyam, author.

Contributor:

FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator.

Coley, Louis B., illustrator.

Godfrey A.S. Wieners (Firm), active 1902, publisher.

John Wilson and Son, printer.

University Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

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 into English.

Persian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

illustrated books.

Illustrated works.

Poetry.

Translations.

Translations -- 20th century.

Private press books (Printing)

Brown's (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

55 leaves ; 32 x 24 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge [Massachusetts] : University Press, John Wilson and Son.

Place of Publication:

New York [New York] : Godfrey A.S. Wieners, 1902.

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the Persian.

Notes:

Title and text within ornamental borders; text includes rubricated initials.

Printed on one side of leaf only, the printed pages facing each other.

"This edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, printed November, MCMII, consists of 250 numbered copies on Brown's hand-made paper and 50 numbered copies on Japan vellum. The title page and decorative borders are the work of Mr. Louis B. Coley. No. 102."

Illustrated title; manufacture and copyright statements transposed from title verso; limitation statement on colophon.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 283.

OCLC:

7670006