Terza-rima sonnets / by Robin Lampson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Lampson, Robin, 1900- (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 53 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Printed & published by Wilder Bentley at The Archetype Press, 1935.

Contents:

Conscious of mortality

Sonnets for Margaret.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1935, by Robin Lampson."

"The Terza-Rima Sonnet ... is, of course, an adaptation of the measure immortalized by Dante ... As far as I can discover, this is the first book of terza-rima sonnets ever published."--Author's Note.

Sonnets printed on recto only.

"Only 500 copies have been issued, designed by Wilder Bentley and printed by him on a hand press. The text has been hand set in Goudy Modern type by Robert C. Sikes; the proofs read by Margaret Fraser Lampson. The first 125 copies have been numbered & signed by the author ... "

Orange boards lettered in brown on spine with facsimile of author's autograph in gilt on front cover.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 203 and is unsigned.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Burton Rascoe with the admiration and sincere regards of the author - Robin Lampson. Berkeley, 24 July 1937".

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is no. 182 and is unsigned.

OCLC:

2463041