Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934)
A38
Editions
a. First separate edition
HOMAGE TO | SEXTUS PROPERTIUS | BY | EZRA POUND | ‘QUIA PAUPER AMAVI’ | LONDON | FABER & FABER LTD 1 blank leaf, 3 leaves, 9-35 pp. 22.3 X 1474 cm. Light or dark blue boards lettered in purple down the spine; end-papers; bottom edges untrimmed. Rose dust-jacket printed in blue. Published 8 November 1934 at 2s. 6d.; 1000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: First published in November Mcmxxxtv ... Printed in Great Britain by R. MACLEHOSE and Company Limited The University Press Glasgow ... Notes: Reprinted from Quia Pauper Amavi (1919)—A17—pp. 32-51. (In the United States the poem had been included in Poems 2928-22 ()—A21—pp. 1134, and in Personae (1926)—A27—pp. [205}230.) In 1958 it was printed with “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” in a single volume as Diptych Rome-London—A75. The poem was reprinted, with “a number of minor changes authorized by Pound himself, ... a collation of all four editions of the complete poem plus the sections which were printed in Poetry and The New Age [and] ... the Latin text of Propertius’ work which Pound used for his translation,” in J. P. Sullivan’s Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius, a Study in Creative Translation (Austin, University of Texas Press [1964]), pp. [107}+-171.
b. De luxe edition ([1976])
[In black:| EZRA POUND | HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS | Sette acqueforti | di | Fausto MELOTT! | “The Venetian Grave” | di | Archibald MACLEISH | [i red: device| | [in black:] M’ARTE EDIZIONI [Milano] 2 blank leaves, 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, 2~5 numbered leaves, 1 leaf, 1 blank leaf, 9 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 7 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 2 leaves, 2 blank leaves, incl. 7 mounted col. facsims., 1 mounted port. 7 plates (each with blank guard tissue). 38 X 28-5 cm. (leaves). Sheets issued unbound in plain paper wrappers, 39 X 29 cm., stamped in blind on front, folded over first and last blank leaves. Blue cloth board portfolio, 39-5 X 29:7 cm., lettered in white down the spine. Blue cloth board case, 40.2 X 30 cm., stamped in white on side. 54 Published September 1976 in the series “Immagini e testi Serie seconda, I, a cura di Luigi Majno”; 177 copies printed. Colophon (recto of final leaf) Questa edizione ... stampata dalla Tipografia Stefanoni di Lecco ... @ costituita da centosettantasette esemplari cosi suddivisi: un esemplare segnato con la lettera A contenente il manoscritto originale del poeta, cinque esemplari segnati con le lettere B, C, D, E, F contenenti un altro manoscritto originale del poeta, ciuque [sic] esemplari segnati con le lettere G, H, L, M, N contenenti un disegno originale dell’ artista, trenta esemplari numerati da 1 a 30 accompagnati da un’altra prova delle sette acqueforti tirate su carta Giappone..., centosei esemplari numerati da 31 a 136 e trenta esemplari fuori commercio numerati da la XXX riservati ai collaboratori. La riproduzione del manoscritto originale contenuta negli esemplari da A a N, da 1 a 136 e dal a X @ firmata da Ezra Pound. Il testo di Archibald MACLEISH é firmato dall’autore. Le acqueforti di Fausto Melotti tirate nel laboratorio di Franco Sciardelli di Milano sono numerate e sono firmate dall’artista. La fotografia di Ezra Pound é di Henri Cartier-Bresson. Le quadricromie degli antichi manoscritti properziani sono state stampate dall’Istituto Grafico Bertieri di Milano ... Milano, maggio 1976. Esemplare [/ectered or numbered in pencil| Questo esemplare é stato stampato per ... [name printed in. Ezra Pound’ signature in pencil appears on the recto of the fifth leaf of the third count, and Archibald Macl.eish’ on the verso of the second leaf of the seventh count.] Dedication on recto of third leaf of the first count: Alla cara memoria di Ezra Loomis Pound... Contents: “Piti che una premessa,” by Luigi Majno—“Introduzione a ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’ di Ezra Pound” [“Sexti Properti Carmina Codex Neapolitanus nunc Guelferbytanus Gudianus 224 circa annum 1200 scriptus” (color facsimiles of seven pages)]—“Homage to Sextus Propertius” [VIII: facsimile reproduction of Ezra Pound’s fair copy, dated Venice 1970, on five numbered leaves|—“Homage to Sextus Propertius, ‘an Interpretation?” VII-X [with Latin texts of Elegies XV, XXVIII A, B & C and XXIX A & B from Book II opposite, followed by the same elegies translated into Italian verse by Roberto Sanesi, into French prose by Don Sauveur Paganelli, and into German prose by Georg Luck]—“The Venetian Grave,” by Archibald Macleish—[Photograph of] “Ezra Pound di Henri Cartier-Bresson, Venezia, 1971” [with reproduction of Ezra Pound’s fair copy of “Erat Hora,” dated Venice, 9 November 1971]—“Ezra Pound: A Note on His Life and Works,” by Donald Gallup.
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