Description: Author: Croft, Peter John Title: Autograph Poetry in the English Language : Facsimiles of original manucripts from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century [2 vols] Publication: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Edition: Limited EditionBinding: Hardcover Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Minor tears in dust covers - as shown. Description: Its two volumes cover the period from the fourteenth century to Dylan Thomas in the twentieth, and represent 146 poets on 197 chronologically-arranged plates reproducing complete pages of manuscript. Each facsimile shows the poet engaged in composing, revising, or establishing a final text of his work. The reader is thus brought into living contact with poetry in the making, while at the same time he is enabled to see the development of English handwriting over six centuries ... Each facsimile is faced by a letterpress page containing a transcript of the original (recording the author's deletions and revisions) and a commentary providing information on the sources, relevant biographical details, features of the handwriting, and points of literary significance." Two of two volumes, complete set, in slipcase. ; 2 vols pages.
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Year Printed: 1973
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Autograph Poetry
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Croft, Peter John
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Personalized: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Signed: No
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
