A Draft of XXX Cantos / by Ezra Pound.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Contributor:

Pound, Dorothy, rubricator.

Hours Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Cantos. Canto 1-30

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1852-1930 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

141 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First limited edition].

Other Title:

Draft of thirty cantos.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Hours Press, 15 rue Guénégaud, 1930.

Notes:

"2 Copies real vellum marked A-B not for sale; 10 Copies on Texas Mountain Paper signed and numbered I-X; 200 copies on Canson-Mongolfier Soleil Velin M.R.V. paper 1-200"--"Justification" (p. [4]).

"Imprimé pour The Hours Press par Maître Imprimeur François Bernouard 1930. Initiales par D.S. [i.e. Dorothy Shakespear Pound]"--Colophon.

This edition, published by Nancy Cunard's Hours Press imprint, was the last installment of the Cantos issued by a private press; hereafter in England and the United States the 'Cantos' were published by trade publishers.

Canto VI is misnumbered IV on p. 23.

Tan Hessian cloth boards lettered in red on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 131.

Culture Class Collection copy has "Esher" bookplate.

Cited in:

Gallup, D. Pound (1983 ed.), A31a

OCLC:

4590871