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A draft of the Cantos 17-27 of Ezra Pound / initials by Gladys Hynes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio AC9 P8652 928d
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PS3531.O82 C29 1928
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Standardized Title:
- Cantos. Canto 17-27
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Woodcuts.
- Woodcuts -- Color.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Buddy Taub Foundation (donor) (RBC copy)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Booth, Marcella Spann (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 2 unnumbered pages . : illustrations (some color) ; 40 cm
- Manufacture:
- Plaistow : J. Curwen & Sons.
- Other Title:
- Cantos 17-27
- Cantos 17 to 27
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Rodker, 1928.
- Notes:
- Half title: Cantos 17 to 27.
- "The edition of one hundred and one copies, of which ninety-four are for sale, consists of four on vellum, signed by the author and artist and lettered A to D; five on Imperial Japan paper, signed by the author and lettered E to I; fifteen on Whatman paper numbered I to XV; and seventy on Roma paper, specially watermarked, numbered 1 to 70. Six copies have been sent to various libraries under the Copyright Act, and one copy for review."--P. [5].
- "Printed and made in England by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. Plaistow"--T.p. verso.
- Each canto has woodcut caption and ornamental initial in red, with illustrative design in black or in red and black; also illustrative tailpieces in black.
- Collation: folio: [unsigned, 1-6⁴ 7⁶]; 30 leaves, pp. [2 unnumbered (blank)] [1-7] 8-56 [57-58 (blank)] [pagination omitted above captions].
- Copies numbered 1-70 bound in red vellum boards, with cover title "Cantos EP" in gold; for bindings of special copies, see Gallup.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is one of a limited ed. of 101 copies, unnumbered and unsigned, bound in .
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Glenn Horowitz with funding provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors.
- RBC copy inscribed by Ezra Pound to Marcella Spann Booth (b. 1932) on 28 May 1958 in red ink on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.), A29
- OCLC:
- 4331129
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