Lot 78
Ibbett (W.J.).- Porter (William N.) A Year of Japanese Epigrams, first edition, Ibbett's copy with copious autograph epigrams throughout, 1911.
Hammer Price: £200
Description
Ibbett (W.J.).- Porter (William N.) A Year of Japanese Epigrams, first edition, W.J. Ibbett's copy with his profuse autograph epigrapms throughout in pen and pencil, plates and pictorial endpapers, a few insertions (some manuscript), original cloth, 8vo, 1911.
⁂ Ibbett's versions echo the printed Japanese text, e.g. January 2nd: "The night wind whistles clear/Among the rustling pine-tree tops/The first song of the year" (translation of Japanese text) "Black spleenwort cleaves/to one old wall,/with grace receives/the rudest squall." (Ibbett's composition).
William Joseph Ibbett (b.1858) was a poet with close links to Dorset. His works were often printed by private presses such as the Pear Tree and Shakespeare Head Presses and, more locally, by James Masters at the High House Press in Shaftesbury. His autobiography, The Annals of a Nobody, have lad some people to theorise that he may have been Jack the Ripper!
Description
Ibbett (W.J.).- Porter (William N.) A Year of Japanese Epigrams, first edition, W.J. Ibbett's copy with his profuse autograph epigrapms throughout in pen and pencil, plates and pictorial endpapers, a few insertions (some manuscript), original cloth, 8vo, 1911.
⁂ Ibbett's versions echo the printed Japanese text, e.g. January 2nd: "The night wind whistles clear/Among the rustling pine-tree tops/The first song of the year" (translation of Japanese text) "Black spleenwort cleaves/to one old wall,/with grace receives/the rudest squall." (Ibbett's composition).
William Joseph Ibbett (b.1858) was a poet with close links to Dorset. His works were often printed by private presses such as the Pear Tree and Shakespeare Head Presses and, more locally, by James Masters at the High House Press in Shaftesbury. His autobiography, The Annals of a Nobody, have lad some people to theorise that he may have been Jack the Ripper!
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