Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

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Lot 267 | Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

The Sonnets and Ballate. 1912

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972, translator) and Guido CAVALCANTI (c.1250-1300). The Sonnets and Ballate. London: Neill and Company, Limited for Stephen Swift and Co., Ltd., 1912.



First English edition, first issue, presentation copy inscribed by Pound to W.P. Ker. William Paton Ker was a Professor of English Literature and in 1920 was appointed to the Chair of Poetry at Oxford. The English edition of Sonnets and Ballate was published by Stephen Swift and Co., Ltd in May 1912. Following the bankruptcy of the publishers in the Autumn of 1912, the remaining bound copies were transferred to Elkin Mathews, who sold them from 1913 until 1915, after which most of the remaining copies were destroyed by fire. The present copy is notable not only as rare survivor of this edition, but also as an early issue, with an inscription dated 1912, and the original publisher's catalogue present. Gallup notes that in some copies, presumably presented after Swift's failure, the catalogue has been excised. Gallup B4b and note to A8a.



Octavo (192 x 125mm). Woodcut publisher's device on title. Text in English and Italian. 32-page publisher's catalogue printed in red and black bound in at the end (scattered light spotting and occasional light marking). Original streaked grey cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper board and spine, later morocco-backed box (spine slightly darkened, small mark on upper board, extremities lightly rubbed, some splits to book block, without the dustjacket). Provenance: William Paton Ker (1855-1923, presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Professor W.P. Ker. / With apologies for the / fourty nine mistakes / Ezra Pound 1912'; presentation bookplate on upper pastedown, recording the gift of the volume in memory of Ker on 6 December 1923, to:) – Lucy M.M. Gairdner.



[Sold with:] – The Sonnets and Ballate. Boston, MA: The University Press for Small, Maynard and Company, 1912. Quarto (200 x 155mm). (Light marginal browning.) Original half vellum, spine lettered in gilt (spine darkened, extremities a little rubbed and chipped). First edition. Gallup B4a.

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