Accession number
PML 63893
Creator
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Published
[Oxford] : S.H.S. [i.e. privately printed by Stephen Spender], 1928.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1973.
Notes
With ms. additions and corrections in ink, presumably in Spender's hand.
For correspondence from Spender, Zahn, et al., regarding this copy, cf. MA 3224.
With one blank leaf on wove paper at front; three blank laid leaves at end.
Erratum leaf in library's copy has been tipped in on p. 5.
Dedication on 2nd prelim. leaf (p. [1]): To Christopher Isherwood.
Printed in an edition of "About 45 copies" (verso of dedicatory leaf) but Bloomfield et al. suggest closer to 30 copies were printed.
Library's copy is unnumbered.
Pp. [1]-22 on laid paper, printed by Spender in Frognal, Hampstead; title page, erratum sheet, and pp. 23-37 on wove paper, printed by Holywell Press, Oxford.
For correspondence from Spender, Zahn, et al., regarding this copy, cf. MA 3224.
With one blank leaf on wove paper at front; three blank laid leaves at end.
Erratum leaf in library's copy has been tipped in on p. 5.
Dedication on 2nd prelim. leaf (p. [1]): To Christopher Isherwood.
Printed in an edition of "About 45 copies" (verso of dedicatory leaf) but Bloomfield et al. suggest closer to 30 copies were printed.
Library's copy is unnumbered.
Pp. [1]-22 on laid paper, printed by Spender in Frognal, Hampstead; title page, erratum sheet, and pp. 23-37 on wove paper, printed by Holywell Press, Oxford.
Description
2 prelim. leaves, 3-37 p. ; 13 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscriptions on first blank leaf: For Father D'Arcy from Stephen Spender. Oxford, June 6th 1929. -- To Mabel Zahn with best wishes and memories of a very happy meeting in Philadelphia. August 20th 1942 [signed] Wystan Auden.
Provenance
Printer's inscription to Father Martin D'Arcy ; authorial inscription to Mabel Zahn ; Urling S. Iselin.
Binding
Original brick-red printed wrappers, bound by Holywell Press, Oxford; housed in case.
Classification
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