Confucius. The Unwobbling Pivot & The Great Digest (1947)
A58
Editions
a. First edition
Confucius | The Unwobbling Pivot & | The Great Digest | translated by Ezra Pound | With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms, | together with Ciu Hsi’s “Preface” to the Chung Yung and | Tseng’s commentary on the Testament | Pharos | Winter, 1947
52, , [11] pp. 23.5 x 16.2 cm. (wrappers); 22.8 x 15.4 cm. (sheets). Heavy rose paper wrappers printed in black on page [i].
Published 18 March 1947 at $1.00 as “Pharos, No. 4”; 929 copies printed. Imprint at foot of page [64]: Printer, Dudley Kimball Parsippany, New Jersey Advertisements, [11] pages following page [53], are an integral part of the volume.
Notes: “The Unwobbling Pivot” is an English version of Ciung Iung. Lasse che non vacilla (1945)—A57. “The Great Digest” is an English version of Confucio. Ta Seu. Dai Gaku. Studio integrale (1942)—B46—and of Testamento di Conficio (1944)—A54; it is a revision of Ta Hio, the Great Learning (1928)—A28. For a new edition, with the Chinese text, see Confucius. The Great Digest & Unwobbling Pivot ([1951])—B53.
b. Indian edition ([1949])
CONFUCIUS | The Unwobbling Pivot & | The Great Digest | Translated by | Ezra Pounp | With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms | together with Ciu Hsi’s “Preface” to the Chung Yung | and Tseng’s commentary on the Testament | Published for | KavirapHavan | by | ORIENT LONGMANS LTD. | BOMBAY : CALCUTTA !: MADRAS
4 leaves, 44 pp. 21.1 x 13.7 cm. Heavy cream paper wrappers printed in brown on pages [i] and [iv] and down the spine; end-papers.
Published May 1949 at 2 rupees, 8 annas; 1100 copies printed. On verso of titleleaf: ... First Published in India 1949 Printed in India By B.K. Sen at the Modern India Press, 7 Wellington Square, Calcutta.
Contains “Dedication to Amiya Chakravarty,” by Ezra Pound, recto of third leaf, not in the first edition (of which the text is an exact reprint).
Note: This book was itself reprinted, by offset, and issued 14 July 1951, in a single volume with a reduced offset reprinting of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry —B36a—as Emest Fenollosa. The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry. Wich Offset of the Calcutta Edition of Pivot ([Washington, D. C.] Square $ Series [1951]), where it appears as pages [3]-49 (pages -47 in later editions).
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