First edition

CONFUCIUS | DIGEST | OF THE | ANALECTS | MILAN | XV [i.e. 1937]

2 blank leaves, 10 leaves, 1 blank leaf, 1 leaf, 2 blank leaves. 9.8 x 7.8 cm. Yellow paper wrappers, printed in black on page [i]: KUNG FU TSEU | [Ideograms], folded over stiff white blanks and first and last blank leaves. Half-title: Digest of the Analects that is, of the Philosophic Conversations.

Published June 1937 at L. 10; 245 copies printed. Colophon (recto of final leaf): “all’Insegna del Pesce d’Oro” Di questo volumetto nella versione di Ezra Pound, a cura di Giovanni Scheiwiller si sono stampati dalle Industrie Grafiche Pietro Vera di Milano il 15-6-1937—XV, 220 esemplari numerati su carta uso mano e 25 esemplari su carta “Japon” numerati da | a XXV per gli amici del libro Esemplare N. . . . [number stamped in] (The copies on “Japon” are bound in stiff vellum wrappers.)

Notes: The text was reprinted, with the omission of two short sentences, as Chapter 1, Section 1, Part I of Guide to Kulchur (1938)—A45—pp. 15-21. For Ezra Pound’s later translation of the complete text see Confucian Analects ([1951]))—A65.