Lot 86
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry,", 16pp., 1904
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," 16pp. on 14 leaves, numerous revisions, signed and dated at end, with calligraphic title page in red and black, bound with a typescript of the same (neatly underlined throughout with initials and poetic quotations executed in red in a calligraphic hand), crushed brown half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little rubbed and sunned, 4to, 1904.
⁂ A working draft of this essay by Symons, possibly originally intended for his 1904 book of essays Studies in Prose and Verse. Symons discusses numerous writers including Edward Fitzgerald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Goethe, Gauthier and Pope.
Description
Symons (Arthur) Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," 16pp. on 14 leaves, numerous revisions, signed and dated at end, with calligraphic title page in red and black, bound with a typescript of the same (neatly underlined throughout with initials and poetic quotations executed in red in a calligraphic hand), crushed brown half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine a little rubbed and sunned, 4to, 1904.
⁂ A working draft of this essay by Symons, possibly originally intended for his 1904 book of essays Studies in Prose and Verse. Symons discusses numerous writers including Edward Fitzgerald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Goethe, Gauthier and Pope.
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