Shelfmark
Kx.4.06
Author
Title
In time of "the breaking of nations" / by Thomas Hardy.
Edition
Limited ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London : printed for private circulation by Clement Shorter, 1916]
Physical description
[8] p. ; 23 cm.
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Note
See Purdy, p. 176.
Note
Colophon: "Of this Poem, which first appeared in "The Saturday Review" for January 29, 1916, twenty-five copies only have been printed by Clement Shorter for private circulation, with the permission of the Author. February 1, 1916.".
Note
Sewn in original stiff purple paper wrappers (lined with white) ; front printed in black as t.p.
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr on front pastedown (Acquired at the Frederick Adams Sotheby's sale in 2001 by Kessler).
Provenance
Book label of Nicholas Kessler at foot of front pastedown.
Copy-specific note
1 of 25 copies printed by Clement Shorter (not signed or numbered).
Copy-specific note
2 TLS from Clement Shorter to Mr Paul Lemperly, Ohio, dated 1916, loosely inserted. The letters alude to Shorter sending his privately printed pamphlets (this one included) to Lemperly. This is possibly Lemperly's copy, although it lacks his bookplate.
Copy-specific note
Housed in four-fold wrapper of quarter red cloth over marbled paper covered boards with 5 other Hardy pamphlets printed privately by Clement Shorter between 1914 and 1916 (Kx.4.02 - Kx.4.05 and Kx.4.07).
Added entry--name
Shorter, Clement King, 1857 - 1926 publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35690