A47 Pure Poetry

Table of Contents

A47-a First edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contents

A47-2a First American edition

Title Page

Launch

Description

Contents

A47-2a2 Boni and Liveright trade edition

A47-a First edition

Title Page

PURE POETRY

an anthology edited by

George Moore

publisher's device

1924

The Nonesuch Press

30 Gerrard Street Soho W

all within a quadruple-rule border, with decorative ornaments at top and bottom

Launch

Published 4 September 1924 at 17/6 in an edition of 1,250 copies; in addition, an undetermined number were issued “Out of Series” for reviewers.

Description

Height: 9 1/2 in; 9.5 in; 24.13 cm

Width: 5 1/2 in; 5.5 in; 13.97 cm

[  ]4 (endpapers and binder’s leaves), [a]6, A-K6, L4, [  ]4, (binder’s leaves and endpapers); pp [4], xii, 128, [4], comprising:

• two blank binder’s leaves conjugate with endpapers, not paginated;
• blank leaf pp [i-ii];
• half title, verso blank, pp [iii-iv];
• title page, with notice of limitation on verso, pp [v-vi];

This edition, printed & made in Great

Britain by the University Press,

Edinburgh, is limited to 1250 copies, of which this is number [numbered in ink]

• table of

THE

CONTENTS

pp vii-ix;

• p [x] blank;
• sectional title, verso blank, pp [xi-xiii];
• THE THESIS pp 1-43;
• p [44] blank;
• sectional title, verso blank, pp [45-46];
• the poems pp 47-128;
• two blank binder’s leaves conjugate with endpapers, not paginated;
• all edges untrimmed;
• gray Ingres paper-covered board sides, back and front covers plain,
• parchment spine with spine gilt lettered down

PURE POETRY: GEORGE MOORE

Contents

Section II of “Part I: The Thesis” was previously published as chapter XV of Conversations in Ebury Street (A46); “Part II: The Poems” includes poems from Skelton and Nashe to Morris and Swinburne, illustrating GM’s “Thesis.”

A47-2a First American edition

Title Page

AN ANTHOLOGY

of

PURE POETRY [in red]

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

GEORGE MOORE

publisher's device, in red

NEW YORK

BONI AND LIVERIGHT [in red]

1924

Launch

Published 21 November 1924 at $5.00 in an edition of 1,000 copies.

Description

Height: 8 3/4 in; 8.75 in; 22.23 cm

Width: 6 1/8 in; 6.13 in; 15.56 cm

[1]2 (tipped in), [2-11]8, [12]10; pp 184, comprising:

• half title, with list of CARRA EDITION titles on verso, pp [i-ii];
• title page, with

Copyright, 1924, by

BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

[rule]

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

and notice of limitation on verso, pp [iii-iv];

THIS FIRST EDITION OF ONE THOU-

SAND NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES

IS SPECIALLY PRINTED AND BOUND,

AND WILL NOT BE RE-ISSUED IN THIS

FORMAT.

NO. [numbered in ink]

George Moore [signed in ink]

• table of CONTENTS pp v-vi;
• fly title, verso blank, pp [7-8];
• INTRODUCTION pp 9-59;
• p [60] blank;
• text of poems pp 61-182;
• pp [183-84] blank;
• bluish-gray endpapers, with extra spine label tipped on paste-down endpaper;
• top and fore edges untrimmed, bottom edges trimmed;
• bluish-gray paper-covered board sides, matching the endpapers,
• parchment spine, with white label on spine, lettered in black, except as noted:

An

Anthology

of

Pure

Poetry

decorative rule

George Moore [in red]

decorative rule

Boni &

Liveright

two plain rules, with decorative rule between, all in red, at top and bottom of label

Format of this edition matches volumes of the Carra Edition, and unnumbered and unsigned copies were issued with remainder sets.

Contents

Same as the first edition (A47-a), except “The Thesis” is called simply “Introduction,” and the order of “The Poems” is slightly rearranged.

Plates of this edition were used for:

A47-2a2 Boni and Liveright trade edition

Boni and Liveright, New York, 1925 issued in a format matching other Boni and Liveright trade editions (see A52-2a for description).

The plates were again used for a paperbound edition:

A47-2a3 Liveright edition

Liveright, New York, 1973, with table of “Contents” omitted in front and a five-page “Index of Poems” substituted at end.