Author
Omar Khayyam.
Publication Date
1899
Publication Place
East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1899. -
The Roycrofters
Type
Book
Language
eng,fas
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
67
Physical Dimensions
12 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 17-67 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
2135841
Record ID
9963557023503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1899
Notes
"Of this edition of the Rubaiyat but Nine Hundred and Twenty copies were printed and types then distributed. Each book is numbered, and this volume is No. ..."--Page [5]., The text body is set in Caslon. The title page has the Denslow seahorse below the title. the illustrations throughout the book were designed by W. W. Denslow and have his distinctive seahorse either in the drawing or next to it. This edition was printed in three colors on Boxmoor paper and bound in suede.----cf. Roycroft Books [online resource], Alternating red and blue initial capitals, with gold accents, on quatrains; illustrations are hand-illumined., "So here endeth the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, as rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald and done into a book by me, Elbert Hubbard, at the Roycroft Shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, and completed September tenth MDCCCXCIX"--Colophon. | Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Roycroft Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012., Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 803. | Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection), Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection), Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)
Sample Text
A republishing of FitzGerald's fourth ver.
Atıf Yapılan
McKenna, P. Roycroft, 50, Ogle, David. On a high shelf, OB-045-99
Tür
Poetry.
