Divan-e-Shams
By: Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi ; selected and translated by Zahra Partovi ; interpreted by Joan Busing, Sandy Gellis, Elizabeth Harington, Bernard Kirschenbaum, T. Kurahara, James Nares, Dorothea Rockburne, Betye Saar, Annette Senneby, Michelle Stuart, Peter Thomson, Judith Turner, Marjorie Van Dyke, Joan Vennum, Susan Weil.
Contributors: Partovi, Zahra.; Busing, Joan.; Gellis, Sandy.; Harington, Elizabeth.; Kirschenbaum, Bernard.; Kurahara, T.; Nares, James.; Rockburne, Dorothea.; Saar, Betye.; Senneby, Annette.; Stuart, Michelle, 1933-; Thomson, Peter.; Turner, Judith.; Van Dyke, Marjorie.; Kurahara, Joan Vennum.; Weil, Susan.; Keleher, Daniel.; Kelly, Jerry, 1955-; Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company.; Wild Carrot Letterpress.; BookLab (Firm)
Publisher: Vincent Fitz Gerald and Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: per
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Persian poetry.; Artists' books -- United States.
Work titles: Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī.
Notes: Poems.

Illustrations: original graphic works by 15 artists, some mounted, some on multiple or folded leaves, some on colored or translucent paper; most signed in pencil by the respective artist. Etchings by Van Dyke, Harington, Busing, Thomson, Vennum, Gellis, Kurahara and Nares; silkscreens by Weil; photogravures by Stuart and Turner; silkscreen and etching by Rockburne; watercolor, collage and glass sculpture by Senneby; lithograph by Saar; and plotter drawings by Kirschenbaum. Etchings produced by Vincent FitzGerald (Vincent Fitz Gerald & Co.); Lothar Osterburg (Lothar Osterburg Photogravure); Lynn Rogan (Lynn Rogan Associates), and Marjorie Van Dyke (Printmaking Workshop); silkscreens by Margo Pelletier (Color Girls); lithograph by Judith Solodkin (Solo Impression). The glass sculpture by Senneby, produced by John Depp, Inc., is embedded in the case.

Includes index.

Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies signed by the translator in Persian.

"Printing, Daniel Keleher ... Type, Renaissance Roman by Hermann Zapf. Calligraphy, Jerry Kelly ... Binding, BookLab, Inc."--Colophon.

Title in gold, silver, and black.

Binding: publisher's white muslin; decorated endpapers; in a silver cloth-covered case with silver stamping.

For discussion of previous 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.

Text in English with some material in Persian.

Library's copy is no. 14.