The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Contributors: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883, translator; Hay, John, 1838-1905; Roycroft Shop
Publisher: The Roycrofters
Published: 1899
Place of publication: East Aurora, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
Description: A republishing of FitzGerald's fourth ver.
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. ..."--p. [3].

This is No. 98.

Alternating red and blue initial capitals, with gold accents, on quatrains; ills. 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

Potter, Ambrose G.  Bibliography of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 224 (Sep. 1899 reprint)

McKenna, Paul. A history and bibliography of the Roycroft printing shop, 2nd ed. 50
Table of contents: title: The Rubaiyat [poem]  -- Charles P. Nettleton; title: Omar Khayyam: address delivered December 8, 1897 at the dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club, London  -- Hon. John Hay; title: The Rubaiyat -- Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald, tr.)