Eliot, T. S. | First edition, second issue of Eliot's third work

Eliot, T. S. 

Poems. Richmond: Printed & Published by L. & V. Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1919 

8vo (222 x 142 mm). Text block a trifle toned, outer corners lightly creased. Original decorative batik wrappers by Roger Fry, printed paper label; wrappers reinforced with outer margins sympathetically renewed. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case. 

First edition, second issue of Eliot's scarce third work, preceded only by Prufrock and Other Observations, and an anonymous pamphlet entitled Ezra Pound, His Metric and Poetry.

This fragile pamphlet was printed ("fewer than 250 copies" of both issues combined) and bound by Leonard and Virginia Woolf — only the fourth publication issued by the Hogarth Press, and an important one to its founders. According to Leonard Woolf: "The publication of T. S. Eliot's Poems must be marked as a red letter day for the Press and for us. ... I never tired and still do not tire of those lines which were a new note in poetry and came from the heart of the Eliot of those days..."

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