| Curwen Press: | E27 |
| Curwen Press: | E27 |
| British Library: | C.102.h.9 |
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TWENTY SONNETS TO MARY BY EDWARD [block: a clenched fist] I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow? Shelley
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[Publisher's Imprint] 2 line blocks, with coloured ground, the first with wording: ‘OPUS II’ and the 2nd: ‘Published by The James Press’
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[1]2 [2-7]4; double endleaves at front; [7]2+3 seem to be tipped in, not sewn.
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Large Imperial 8o: 11¼" × 7½", top edge only trimmed, white laid, Etruria Italy; 18(+11½)pt. Kennerley italic; line block decorations; casing, spine red leather gold-blocked down: ‘TWENTY SONNETS FOR [sic] MARY’, boards in decorative grey and brown paper with small red leather corners.
'Edward' in the title = Edward James, poet, and patron of Surrealism; note the discrepancy in the binding title.
Curwen copy lacks casing.
Robin Phillips, 1963
