Accession number
PML 136073
Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Published
Paris : Three Mountains Press, 1923.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
"Three hundred copies of this book were printed on Rives handmade paper and the type distributed"--Half-t.p. verso.
"Hand-printed at Paris, in the Isle Saint Louis, by William Bird, amateur printer, with the collaboration of Roger Debigne. Caslon Old-Face set by Philip Beaugie. Press-work by Robert Dill. January 1923"--Colophon.
"The first edition of the first book of the series with its very first review from the columns of the Parisian New York Herald and the Chicago Tribune, for Mrs. Welton with the love and affection of the business mgr. of the publishing house, who happens to be the reviewer, who also happens to be her brightest sun"--Written in pen on preliminary leaf.
"Hand-printed at Paris, in the Isle Saint Louis, by William Bird, amateur printer, with the collaboration of Roger Debigne. Caslon Old-Face set by Philip Beaugie. Press-work by Robert Dill. January 1923"--Colophon.
"The first edition of the first book of the series with its very first review from the columns of the Parisian New York Herald and the Chicago Tribune, for Mrs. Welton with the love and affection of the business mgr. of the publishing house, who happens to be the reviewer, who also happens to be her brightest sun"--Written in pen on preliminary leaf.
Description
62, [2] p. ; 27 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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