Accession number
PML 195970
Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Published
[London : Privately printed], 1906.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2013.
Notes
Sassoon's first book with the author's hand corrections, published anonymously in December, 1906.
Authorship attribution from Halkett & Laing IV, 370.
Printed by J. E. Francis & Co., London, in an edition of 50, of which 2 were on hand-made paper.
Library's copy is on machine-made paper, bound in author's presentation binding, similar to the five he commissioned in 1908 from Hatchards for Orpheus in Diloeryum (cf. PML 192072, Keynes A2b).
Authorship attribution from Halkett & Laing IV, 370.
Printed by J. E. Francis & Co., London, in an edition of 50, of which 2 were on hand-made paper.
Library's copy is on machine-made paper, bound in author's presentation binding, similar to the five he commissioned in 1908 from Hatchards for Orpheus in Diloeryum (cf. PML 192072, Keynes A2b).
Description
36 p. ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With authorial revisions on pp. 16-19, 21-23, 30; inscribed by Sassoon in ink on front free endpaper: To G.S.W., with the Caboodle's Comp[limen]ts. Oct. '08.
Provenance
Presented by the author in 1908 to George S. Wilson, his friend and Classics teacher at Henley House ; Wilson's sale: John Nicholsons, Haslemere, Surrey, 9 Apr. 2013, lot 501A.
Binding
Quarter vellum with white cloth sides; title stamped in gold on upper board and upper edges gilt, bound by Hatchards (with their stamp), ca. 1908.
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