Accession number
PML 196054
Creator
Boschère, Jean de, 1878-1953.
Published
London : Elkin Mathews, 1916.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2014.
Notes
A selection from Les métiers divins (1913) in French and English.
Translated anonymously by Ezra Pound (cf. Gallup).
"Printed by Wm. Brendon and Son, Ltd., Plymouth"--Colophon.
"Also 50 copies (signed and numbered), coloured by the Author"--Works by Jean de Bosschère (p. 3 of wrapper).
Library's copy, unnumbered, is hand-colored for F. S. Flint by the author.
Translated anonymously by Ezra Pound (cf. Gallup).
"Printed by Wm. Brendon and Son, Ltd., Plymouth"--Colophon.
"Also 50 copies (signed and numbered), coloured by the Author"--Works by Jean de Bosschère (p. 3 of wrapper).
Library's copy, unnumbered, is hand-colored for F. S. Flint by the author.
Description
31 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink on title page: "Colorié pour mon cher Flint en pensant au poète et à l'ami. J.B. oct 1916" ; on back of bespoke wrappers acquired with Flint's copy are marks referencing the poet Germain Nouveau.
Provenance
Presentation inscription to F. S. Flint.
Binding
Orange pictorial wrappers; acquired in a brown rag paper wrapper, enclosed in H. S. Crocker envelope addressed to F. S. Flint c/o Elkin Mathews.
Classification
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