Confucian Analects (1951)
A65
Editions
a. First edition
CONFUCIAN | ANALECTS | [thick-thin rule] | translated and | introduced by | EZRA POUND I [thin-thick rule] | PETER OWEN LIMITED | London
135, [1] pp. 22 x 14.3 cm. Gold cloth boards lettered in purple down the spine; end-papers. (Bound up at various times in slightly variant cloths; in a late binding of circa 1961, the cloth is light brown and is lettered in gold.) Yellow dust-jacket printed in purple.
Published 15 February 1956 at 1 Gs.\ about 1500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf . . . Printed in Great Britain by Boscombe Printing Co. (1933) Ltd., 1 Haviland Road, Bournemouth MCMLVI
Contains “Procedure,” pp. 7-8, and “Brief Concordance,” p. [136], not in the first American edition. (Peter Owen reprinted these by offset, presumably in 1956, as a 2-page leaflet, 27.8 x 21.4 cm., headed on page [ 1 ]: confucian analects. “Procedure” appears on page [1] and “Brief Concordance” on page [2] with, at the foot of that page, a statement by Kasper & Horton that “The new London edition of analects, published by Peter Owen . . . price 16 shillings, U.S.A. $2.25, contains this extra page. We have no objection to the import and sale of that edition, at that price”)
b. First English edition ([1956])
CONFUCIAN | ANALECTS | [thick-thin rule] | translated and | introduced by | EZRA POUND I [thin-thick rule] | PETER OWEN LIMITED | London
135, [1] pp. 22 x 14.3 cm. Gold cloth boards lettered in purple down the spine; end-papers. (Bound up at various times in slightly variant cloths; in a late binding of circa 1961, the cloth is light brown and is lettered in gold.) Yellow dust-jacket printed in purple.
Published 15 February 1956 at 1 Gs.\ about 1500 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf . . . Printed in Great Britain by Boscombe Printing Co. (1933) Ltd., 1 Haviland Road, Bournemouth MCMLVI
Contains “Procedure,” pp. 7-8, and “Brief Concordance,” p. [136], not in the first American edition. (Peter Owen reprinted these by offset, presumably in 1956, as a 2-page leaflet, 27.8 x 21.4 cm., headed on page [ 1 ]: confucian analects. “Procedure” appears on page [1] and “Brief Concordance” on page [2] with, at the foot of that page, a statement by Kasper & Horton that “The new London edition of analects, published by Peter Owen . . . price 16 shillings, U.S.A. $2.25, contains this extra page. We have no objection to the import and sale of that edition, at that price”)
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