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20 volumes, two as monthly issues, two rebound, thirteen of the remaining sixteen with dust-jackets.
Published Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1895
From the library of A. David Moody
A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known
The Bibelot was a monthly publication of literature curated by Thomas B. Mosher, each issue given to a single work or author, and generally of the highest quality. Volume 1, for example, contains Lyrics from William Blake; Ballades from François Villon; Fragments from Sappho; Hand and Soul: D. G. Rossetti, and so on. Running from 1895 to 1914, for a total of 20 volumes (all present), Ezra Pound was surely a subscriber to the magazine, receiving monthly recommendations and reading from the editor. Before leaving America for Italy in 1908, Pound approached Mosher with some fourty poems, hoping for publication. Mosher never printed Pound, those fourty later becoming A Lume Spento, but Pound, later recording his early reading and influences, wrote, ?One was guided by Mr. Mosher.?
These are all first editions, as opposed to the 1925 Testimonial Edition reprint one will find more commonly on the market. The most original are the two volumes of individual monthly issues, which are Vol. XIV (1908) and Vol. XVI (1910). These, as noted, were Sold by Subscription only, thus available only to subscribers. Inside these issues can be found adverts for ?Bound Volumes? 4to, antique boards,? which are what these other volumes are, not subscriber material but back-ordered. These 18 Bound Volumes are each year?s monthlies bound together, with volume-specific paper wraps enclosing the issues. The issues in the Bound Volumes, unlike in the monthlies, do not have their wraps bound in, nor their adverts, order forms, etc., but are simply divided by their half-titles. Thirteen of these Bound Volumes have retained their dust-jackets, two are accompanied by their slipcases, though the slipcase to Vol. VII needs repair, and that of Vol. IX has lost its top and bottom parts. Volumes XVIII and XX have been rebound, the first in an attractive green patterned cloth, the latter in red leather, both with gilt to spine, each without the printed wrappers; Vol. XX with the bookplate of Eleanor R. Brankin to fpd; Vols. VII, VIII & IX also with the bookplate of John Aldred to fpd. The condition of all is generally very good, some volumes, including the monthlies, are stunning; some with foxing or mild water damage (the minority); dust-jackets generally with minor edge-wear and the occasional break to spine, some cut short; some openings occasionally uncut, including in monthly issues. Without the index issue, but with a photocopy as replacement. With a note by A. David Moody laid into Volume VIII at the Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley by Robert Browning.
A true source of Pound?s.
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