Spoon River Anthology / Edgar Lee Masters ; illustrated by Oliver Herford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950.

Contributor:

Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 8, Essex Street, Strand, [1916]

Notes:

With half-title.

English edition with cancel title page.

Title printed within double-ruled decorated border.

Head- and tail-pieces.

Advertisements for Macmillan: [6] p. at end.

First published in 1915 with a total of two hundred fourteen poems. An additional thirty-one epitaphs and "The Epilogue" were published in the 1916 augmented edition.

Black cloth boards with 1916 Macmillan binding. "Macmillan" lettered in gilt at foot of spine. Front cover has title, author and illustrator printed in black upon a gilt decorated panel. Top edge gilt stained.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. annotation on front free endpaper "I remember so well how Theodore Dreiser gave me in New York the unprinted mss. of Spoon River Anthology & how I lectured upon it to a excited audience with the good result that a couple of Reporters hurried off by train to Chicago to see Edgar Lee Masters of whom later, I, J. C. Powys became a devoted friend."

Culture Class Collection copy has letter from Howard S. Mott dated August 28, 1961 describing this book laid in.

OCLC:

249395229