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.
Measurements
The leaves measure 27.0 x 19.8 cm.
Pagination
The pages are not numbered.
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).
Dating
The third American edition of A Portrait was reprinted by B.W. Huebsch in 1918 (see Slocum and Cahoon, A11).
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.
Publication
The manuscript has not been reproduced.
Notes
The pages have been folded twice horizontally.