Accession number
PML 186730
Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Published
Paris : Three Mountains Press, 1923.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
First of six works in a series edited by Pound, retrospectively listed with title "The Inquest" in the colophon of the sixth work, Ernest Hemingway, In our time (Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924); see Gallup.
"Three hundred copies of this book were printed on Rives hand-made paper and the type distributed"--Colophon, page [4].
Library's copy is number 112.
"Hand-printed at Paris, in the Isle Saint Louis, by William Bird, amateur printer, with the collaboration of Roger Dévigne. Caslon Old-Face set by Philip Beaugié. Press-work by Robert Dill. January, 1923"--Colophon, page [63].
Library's copy housed in red cloth slipcase backed in red leather with matching red cloth chemise.
First of six works in a series edited by Pound, retrospectively listed with title "The Inquest" in the colophon of the sixth work, Ernest Hemingway, In our time (Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924); see Gallup.
"Three hundred copies of this book were printed on Rives hand-made paper and the type distributed"--Colophon, page [4].
Library's copy is number 112.
"Hand-printed at Paris, in the Isle Saint Louis, by William Bird, amateur printer, with the collaboration of Roger Dévigne. Caslon Old-Face set by Philip Beaugié. Press-work by Robert Dill. January, 1923"--Colophon, page [63].
Library's copy housed in red cloth slipcase backed in red leather with matching red cloth chemise.
Description
62 pages ; 27 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Gray paper boards lettered in black within ornamental border and publisher's device stamped in red, backed in publisher's beige cloth.
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