The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.27

Description

xl, 244 p., [1] plate : ill. Note: frontis portrait With an appendix showing the variations in the first three editions of Fitzgerald's rendering. Edited with an introduction by Jesse B. Rittenhouse.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s

Dimensions

Height

21 cm

Book Details

Author

Omar Khayyam

Editor

Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Publisher

Little, Brown & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1900

Date Printed

1901

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Binding Designer

Amy M. Sacker

Binding Notes

Bound in dark blue cloth with art nouveau stamping of grapevine and birds to cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Signed binding by Amy Sacker (monogram left bottom corner).