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; Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company; Wild Carrot Letterpress; BookLab (Firm)
Publisher: Vincent Fitz Gerald and Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: per; eng
Translated from: per
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Artists' books
Work titles: Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Notes: 50 copies printed (text) by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress, on Rives BFK paper from Renaissance Roman type; signed by the translator in Persian.

Title page calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Special papers by Paul Wong at Dieu Donné Papermill.

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. Comprise 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 editioned 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, editioned by John Depp, Inc., is embedded in the case.

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.

Binding: Publisher's white muslin, by BookLab, Inc. Issued in a silver cloth-covered case.

Includes index.