The waste land / T.S. Eliot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, author.

Contributor:

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969, printer, publisher.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, typesetter, printer, publisher.

Hogarth Press, printer, publisher.

Erwin K. and Carol Welsch T.S. Eliot Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry, English--20th century.

Poetry, English.

Presses, Issues of--Hogarth.

Presses, Issues of.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Welsch, Erwin K. (former owner) (Welsch Eliot Collection)

Harves, Carol Anne (donor) (Welsch Eliot Collection)

Schleifer, Edith (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Schleifer, Steven (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Schleifer, Benjamin (honoree) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Duckitt, Mabel, 1881-1966 (autograph) (bookplate) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Physical Description:

35, [1] pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Richmond, Surrey : Printed and published by Leonard and Viriginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, Paradise Road, 1923.

Notes:

Poem.

First British edition.

Edition of some 460 copies hand printed by the Woolfs; type entirely handset by Virginia Woolf.

Publisher's advertisement printed on recto of back free endpaper.

Printed label on front cover is known to exist in three states: "(1) measuring approximately 3.8 x 6.5 cm., with a border of asterisks; (2) measuring approximately 6.5 x 9.6 cm., with heavy single-line rule above and below the title; (3) measuring approximately 6.7 x 10 cm., without rules."--Gallup.

For additional information on the printing work of Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, as well as digital images of several Hogarth Press publications, see the excellent entry for "The Hogarth Press" by Duncan Heyes on the British Library's "Discovering Literature: 20th century" webpage: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/the-hogarth-press

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 29-35)

Local Notes:

Welsch Eliot Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Carol Anne Harves.

Welsch Eliot Collection copy has cover label in first state.

LIBRA Rare copy: printed label on left board in Gallup's state 1.

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Edith and Steven Schleifer in memory of Benjamin Schleifer.

LIBRA Rare copy has color-illustrated bookplate of Mabel Duckitt (1881-1966) on front pastedown; dated 20th-century autograph ("M Duckitt. Sept. 1924.") of the same person on front free endpaper.

LIBRA Rare copy: backstrip partially wanting.

Cited in:

Gallup, D. T.S. Eliot (rev. ed.), A6c

Woolmer, J.H. Checklist of The Hogarth Press 1917-1938, 28

OCLC:

3099420