On the art of painting
By: Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi ; interpreted by Zahra Partovi ; etchings by Annette Senneby.
Contributors: Senneby, Annette.; Partovi, Zahra.; Van Dyke, Marjorie.; Bartlett, M'Lis.; Bourbeau, David.; Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company.; Wild Carrot Letterpress.; Thistle Bindery.
Publisher: Vincent FitzGerald
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; per
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Artists' books -- United States
Work titles: Chīniyān guftand mā naqqāsh-i tu.
Notes: Poem.

Translation of: Chīniyān guftand mā naqqāsh-i tu.

For discussion of the editions of selections from Rūmī published by Vincent Fitz Gerald, cf. article by Gerrit Henry in Print collector's newsletter, v. 21 (Mar.-Apr. 1990), p. 10-12.

The illustrations consist of a diagonally rising or falling line, etched on the steel plates mounted on the case, embossed on the silk covers, painted in white on the case lining papers and endpapers and etched in charcoal gray throughout the text, where it may be seen 3 pages deep from any page, forming varied patterns.

Endpapers and matching box lining papers, and a sheet of decorative paper separating the English and Persian text, made by Paul Wong for Dieu Donné.

Bound in dark navy blue silk with embossed line. Boards are cut on a diagonal and the sheets folded off-center, so that the covers and sheets are oriented 2 different ways and the front and back covers each expose a triangular portion of the pages. Issued in a trapezoidal clam-shell box covered with dark navy blue silk, with etched carbide steel plates mounted in front and back. Size of box: 19 x 26 x 21 x 27 cm.

"Composition: The Shagbark Press. Calligraphy: Zahra Partovi ... Etching: Marjorie Van Dyke, M'Lis Bartlett, the Printmaking Workmaking Workshop ... Binding: Zahra Partovi. Box: David Bourbeau, Thistle Bindery"--Colophon.

English and Persian.