II.B.1: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Printed Sheets of the Front Matter of the Third American Printing for the Second English Printing (1918)

Material Description and Collation

The manuscript consists of 3 leaves of printed paper; the versos are blank.

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Measurements

The leaves measure 27.0 x 19.8 cm.

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Pagination

The pages are not numbered.

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Contents

The manuscript consists of printed sheets from the third American printing of A Portrait (New York: Huebsch, January 1918) for the second English edition (London: Egoist Press, 1921), which used imported American sheets, as follows: p. [1] is the “list of books by the same writer”; p. [2] is the “title page”; and p. [3] is the “copyright notice and printing statement”. These sheets were probably sent by Harriet Shaw Weaver with a list of requested changes (MS II.B.2).

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Dating

The third American edition of A Portrait was reprinted by B.W. Huebsch in 1918 (see Slocum and Cahoon, A11).

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Other Markings

There is a note on p. [1] in hand of Miss Weaver in pencil that reads: “Send these proofs to B. W. Huebsch. Rush”. There is another mark also in pencil, which is possibly the printer’s initials, in the upper left corner of the same sheet.

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Publication

The manuscript has not been reproduced.

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Notes

The pages have been folded twice horizontally.