Hand and Eye: an [80th-birthday] anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell: [poems by George Barker, Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, George Mackay Brown, Patric Dickinson, Geoffrey Elborn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jon Silkin, Stephen Spender, R.S. Thomas, with a drawing by Henry Moore]. Edited by Geoffrey Elborn. [Frontispiece drawing by John Piper. Preface by Ronald Stevenson] - printer's proofs

Verlag: Edinburgh: privately printed at the Tragara Press, 1977

Beschreibung

Printer's proofs, in brown card folder inscribed by him, "Hand and Eye / Proofs in first state": 15 leaves printed rectos only, pp. [1-4], [5-8], [20-1], [26-7], [28-9] printed on single sheets, folded, two copies of p. [13] (plate by Henry Moore), all other pages present except [18-19] (poems by Patric Dickinson and the editor); with Alan Anderson's substantive manuscript correction on p. [20] (Seamus Heaney's poem "Otter") and, loosely inserted, his manuscript list (on Tragara Press headed paper) of 11 "author's corrections [to these proofs] made in the published edition", by George Barker (2), John Betjeman (4), Geoffrey Hill (1) and Jon Silkin (4). The published edition was limited to 175 numbered copies. "Sir Sacheverell Sitwell's eightieth birthday fell on November 15 and to celebrate it a number of literary friends and admirers grouped together to prepare a birthday anthology for him. Hand and Eye . . . has a lovely John Piper drawing of Kirby Hall, Northants, as a frontispiece, and a pair of hands in black chalk is Henry Moore's contribution," noted the TLS, 18 November 1977. "The poets form a very effective constellation because they have provided not merely a string of celebratory verses but a general anthology with each author in a characteristic vein: Beckett, for example, ringing the changes on 'imagine si ceci un jour' or Betjeman on the omens of death sniffed in the Chelsea air, with hell not far beneath the pavement . . . It is almost impossible to do justice to that fertile pen - over-fertile sometimes, but rarely facile and never dull.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32M100464

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Titel: Hand and Eye: an [80th-birthday] anthology ...

Verlag: Edinburgh: privately printed at the Tragara Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1977

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Fine