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Confucius : the Unwobbling pivot & the Great digest / translated by Ezra Pound ; with notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms ; together with Ciu Hsi's "Preface" to the Chung yung and Tseng's commentary on the Testament.

Accession number
PML 186703
Published
Washington, D.C. : Square Dollar Series, [1951]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Library's copy housed in red cloth clamshell box.
Translation of: Zhong yong, and: Da xue.
"With offset of the Calcutta edition of the Pivot"--Front wrapper.
"The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa. An ars poetica. With a foreword and notes by Ezra Pound": pages [50]-96.
Title page is "Confucius: the Unwobbling pivot & the Great digest," followed by half title page of "The Chinese written character as a medium for poetry, by Ernest Fenollosa. An ars poetica. With a foreword and notes by Ezra Pound."
Printed for distribution in India.
Description
96 pages ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: To [Winifred] Bryher, because H[ilda Doolittle] thinks she might like it. E.P., 1951.
Provenance
Signed to Winifred Bryher; Carter Burden.
Binding
Gray wrappers printed in black with flaps from the cover of the Calcutta edition of the Pivot, with Confucius printed on inside rear wrapper.
Classification
Department