Sophokles Women of Trachis (1956)
A72
Editions
a. First edition
SOPHOKLES | Women of | Trachis | A version by | EZRA POUND | London | Neville Spearman 1 blank leaf, xxiii, 66 pp., 2 blank leaves. front. (port.) 18.9 X 12.8 cm. Red cloth boards lettered in gold down the spine; end-papers (first and/or final blank leaf pasted down as end-paper in some copies, and underneath end-paper in others). Grey dust-jacket printed in red and blue. Published 30 November 1956 at 10s. 6d. 1000 copies printed. On label pasted on page : First published in 1956 ... Owing to the format of this edition, it has not been possible to set a number of the longer lines of the verse at full length as originally intended; the layout has been adapted in consultation with the author. Imprint at foot of page [iv|: Printed in Great Britain by The Alcuin Press Welwyn Garden City, Herts. The frontispiece is a reproduction of a portrait of Ezra Pound made in 1954 by Sheri Martinelli. Dedication on page [3]; A version for Kitasono Katue, hoping he will use it on my dear old friend Miscio Ito, or take it to the Minoru if they can be persuaded to add to their repertoire. Contents: Foreword [by Denis Goacher]—Ezra Pound’s Translation of Sophokles [by S. V. Jankowski]—Women of Trachis—Editorial Declaration [by Denis Goacher and Peter Whigham]—Why Pound Liked Italy [by Ricardo M. degli Uberti, originally published in Italian in Corriere della Liguria (14 April 1956) and in English translation in Academia Bulletin, Washington, D.C., [1] (1956)] Note: This work was taken over by Faber and Faber and issued 27 January 1969 in their series of Faber paper covered Editions at 7s.
b. First American (offset) edition ((1957])
SOPHOKLES | Women of | Trachis | A version by | EZRA POUND | New York | New Directions [ James Laughlin] 1 blank leaf, xxiii, 66 pp., 2 blank leaves, incl. front. (port.) 22.2 x 14.2 cm. Black cloth boards lettered in silver down the spine; end-papers. (Some copies have the second blank leaf at the end pasted down underneath the back endpaper.) White dust-jacket printed in black and red. Published 27 March 1957 at $3.00; 3000 copies printed. On verso of title-leaf: ... New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin. New York office: 333 Sixth Avenue, New York (14). This edition was printed in November 1956 by the Murray Printing Company, Forge Village, Mass., from reproduction proofs supplied by Neville Spearman. Because of an error in trimming the negative, the final two lines on page 24 94 were omitted in all 3000 copies. When the publisher discovered the error in the first lot of copies received from the binder, Chas. H. Bohn & Co., Inc., New York, in February 1957, the printer prepared and sent to the binder 3000 copies of a four-page cancel fold (pp. 23-24 and 37-38). Apparently eleven bound copies with the error were set aside, but for the remaining 999 copies already bound, a cancel leaf (pp. 23-24, cut from the fold) was inserted and the defective leaf excised. (There is a noticeable variation among copies in the expertness with which the operation was performed.) In October 1957 an additional 1008 sets of sheets were bound up. Before these copies were sewn, the four pages 23~24 and 37-38 were replaced with the cancel fold. The final lot of approximately 980 sets of sheets was handled in the same way when it was bound in 1970.
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