Holbein

1892 · 12597 — London: George Bell & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Limited Edition. Hardcover. ii 18 ii pp 49 leaves. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is one in Imperial 16mo. Signature of Harriet Monroe in pencil on the first free end paper. In original publisher's brown cloth with gilt title to front cover spine covering perished but binding holding. Red and black title page 49 copies of woodcuts and a facsimile of the original 1538 French title page. Forty-one of the woodcuts were according to Dobson cut 11 years before 1538 while the remaining 8 were added after that edition. Accompanying each woodcut is a verse in Latin with the antique French below it. Harriet Monroe 1860 – 1936 was an American editor scholar literary critic poet and patron of the arts and the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine which she established in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens Ezra Pound H. D. T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Carl Sandburg Max Michelson and others Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Interior is in good condition. The tissue protector for the title page is heavily browned and cracking away at the gutter the binding is a bit shaken but otherwise the book is clean and unmarked save for Monroe's signature and a small bibliographic note on the verso of that page. A scarce title nice with an early Monroe provenance. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . George Bell & Sons hardcover