Shelfmark
Oo.6
Author
Title
Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais / Bertie Angle.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Paris : Dorbon-aîné, [1917]
Physical description
[48] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 28 cm.
Note
"Bertie Angle"-pseudonym of Jean-Émile Laboureur and Marcel Boulestin.
Note
First edition, with a Cubist frontispiece by Jean-Émile Laboureur entitled 'Les Plaisirs du camp', printed from an engraved shell fragment.
Note
Contains twenty-one texts in prose and verse; preliminary leaf includes excerpt from Rupert Brooke's 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester', ('... Stands the Church clock at ten to three? / And is there honey still for tea?') and another from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, ('England and France must, by force of their pre-engagements, all enter the lists too...')"
Note
Statement of limitation on colophon: "Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 20 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande "Van Gelder Zonen", numérotés de 1 à 20, et 300 sur papier vélin fin, numérotés de 21 à 321."
Note
First two and final two leaves are blank.
Note
Sewn in publisher's decorated paper wrappers with tricolour stripes; printed white paper title label on upper cover; printed white imprint and price label on lower cover; glassine dust-wrapper.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is an unnumbered "service de presse" copy on regular paper.
Copy-specific note
Unopened.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918.
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Librairie Dorbon-aîné publisher.
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France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B48551