Accession number
PML 188071
Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Published
Paris : Three Mountains Press, 1925.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Cover and half title: XVI cantos of Ezra Pound.
Each canto with woodcut caption and ornamental initial printed in red, with illustrative design in black or in red and black; also tailpieces in black.
"The edition of ninety copies consists of five on Imperial Japan paper autographed by the author, lettered A to E, fifteen on Whatman paper, numbered I to XV, and seventy on Roma paper specially watermarked, numbered 1 to 70"--Verso of half title.
"Printed at the Three Mountains Press, Isle Saint-Louis, Paris, May-December 1924"--Colophon.
Collation: folio: pi² A-H⁴ [$2 ( -B2) signed]; 34 leaves, pp. [1-5] 6-65 [66-68 (68 blank)] [pagination omitted above headings].
Library's copy is number 15.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Each canto with woodcut caption and ornamental initial printed in red, with illustrative design in black or in red and black; also tailpieces in black.
"The edition of ninety copies consists of five on Imperial Japan paper autographed by the author, lettered A to E, fifteen on Whatman paper, numbered I to XV, and seventy on Roma paper specially watermarked, numbered 1 to 70"--Verso of half title.
"Printed at the Three Mountains Press, Isle Saint-Louis, Paris, May-December 1924"--Colophon.
Collation: folio: pi² A-H⁴ [$2 ( -B2) signed]; 34 leaves, pp. [1-5] 6-65 [66-68 (68 blank)] [pagination omitted above headings].
Library's copy is number 15.
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Description
65, [3] pages : illustrations ; 40 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Bound in three-quarter vellum and decorated paper boards of varying design.
Classification
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