Accession number
PML 188017
Creator
Frost, Robert 1874-1963.
Published
[Boston] : [Colonial Society of Massachusetts], [1939]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover title.
Library's copy housed in light green cloth clamshell box.
"This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. It has been printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first font of type that he has cut and cast himself, and is one of his first pieces of printing. It is on hand-made paper, made by him and his father, an authority on paper, with whom he is associated at the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."--Broadside distributed at the Annual Dinner of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, at which this poem was read.
Library's copy lacks broadside.
Library's copy housed in light green cloth clamshell box.
"This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. It has been printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first font of type that he has cut and cast himself, and is one of his first pieces of printing. It is on hand-made paper, made by him and his father, an authority on paper, with whom he is associated at the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."--Broadside distributed at the Annual Dinner of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, at which this poem was read.
Library's copy lacks broadside.
Description
1 sheet ([4] pages) ; 40 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Printer's inscription in graphite on page [3]: Original Proof, Dard Hunter Jr.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
One sheet folded.
Classification
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Department