Quia Pauper Amavi (1919)
A17
Editions
a. First edition, ordinary copies
QUIA PAUPER | AMAVI | EZRA POUND | LONDON: THE EGOIST LTD. | 23 ADELPHI TERRACE HOUSE, W.C.2
51, pp. 25.4 x 15.9 cm. Olive-green paper boards, green cloth black, with buff paper label printed in black up the spine; end-papers; top and fore edges untrimmed. (Printed on wove paper, unwatermarked.)
Published October 1919 at 6s.; 500 copies printed. Imprint on page [52]: The De La More Press Ltd. 32 George Street Hanover Square London W1. Dedication (?) on page [4]: Orfeo
All examined copies have the misprint in line 11 up on page 34, “Wherefore” for “Wherefrom”; the error was corrected in manuscript by the author in most copies.
Contents: Langue d’Oc (“Alba”; “I. Compleynt of a gentleman who has been waiting outside for some time (Girart Bornello)”; “II. Avril. (Guilhem de Peitieu)”; “III. Descant on a Theme by Cerclamon”; “IV. Vergier”; “V. Canzon (1 only, and who elrische pain support’) Arnaut Daniel”)—Moeurs contemporaines (“]. Mr. Styrax”; “II. Clara”; “III. Soirée”; “IV. Sketch 48 b 11”; “V. ‘Nodier raconte ... ’”; “VI. Stele”; “VII. I vecchii”; “VIII. Ritratto”)—Three Cantos [Cantos II, III, and I, all three differing radically from the eventual final texts]—Homage to Sextus Propertius, [I-XI]
b. Special copies
25.4 x 16.6 cm. Grey paper boards, tan cloth back, with buff paper label printed in black up the spine; end-papers; edges untrimmed. (Printed on hand-made paper, watermarked: CANSELL)
Published October 1919, simultaneously with the ordinary copies, at 10s. 6d.; 110 copies printed. Colophon (page [2]): The edition on Handmade Paper is limited to one hundred copies, of which this is No. [number written in by Ezra Pound, with signature either below or on title-page opposite] (There were 10 extra copies for presentation numbered I to X, some of them marked by Pound “out of series.”) In all the special copies, the first two leaves (half-title and title) are of a different paper (watermarked: Monck ...| KEN...) from that used for the text. In most of these copies the misprint on page 34 has been corrected in manuscript by the author.
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