Accession number:
PML 186735
Published:
[London] : [Elkin Mathews], [1916]
Description:
124 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 21 cm
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes:
First edition, first impression (unabridged text). These copies, although technically not published, were sold by Elkin Mathews to those who requested the unabridged text when ordering the book. Cf. Gallup.
"200 copies privately printed"--Title page imprint.
Library's copy is number 55.
"CATHAY: For the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku, from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the Professors Mori and Ariga"--Page [73].
Frontispiece portrait of author from photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Binding:
Publisher's beige cloth lettered in blue.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Author's initials, designed by Edmund Dulac, stamped in intaglio on title page as issued. Cf. Gallup.
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
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