First edition

DE MORIBUS | BRACHMANORUM | LIBER | SANCTO AMBROSIO | FALSO ADSCRIPTUS | APO EDITIONS | Vanni Scheiwiller, Via Melzi d’Eril 6, Milano | McMLv1 2 blank leaves, 2 leaves, 32 pp., 3 leaves, 1 blank leaf. 18:2 X 12:8 cm. Greygreen paper wrappers, printed in black on page [i] and up the spine, folded over stiff white blanks. Published December 1956 at L. 400 as “APO Editions, [1]”; 500 copies printed. Colophon (recto of third leaf following page 32): Libellus hic compositus typisque excusus est, accurante Vanni Scheiwiller, in Oficina Typographica Valdonega Veronae, die XXX mensis Novembris A.D. Mcmivi * Excusa sunt quingenti exemplaria numerata Exemplar N. [number stamped in] Edited anonymously by Ezra Pound. (The publisher had planned a series of texts edited “a po[unp].”) Note: The treatise “De moribus Brachmanorum,” erroneously attributed to St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, is a free translation of the “De gentibus Indiz et Bragmanibus” of Palladius, successively bishop of Helenopolis and of Aspona, who died circa A.D, 430.