B21 The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

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B21-a First edition

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Description

Contribution by GM

B212a First American edition

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Contribution by GM

B21-a First edition

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THE LETTERS OF ABÉLARD AND HÉLOÏSE

NOW FIRST TRANSLATED FROM THE

LATIN BY C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF

LONDON: GUY CHAPMAN

MCMXXV

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Published 20 October 1925

Description

Height: 11 1/2 in; 11.5 in; 29.21 cm

Width: 9 in; 22.86 cm

[1]2 (tipped in), [2-58]4; pp xx, 212, with printer’s device and

Printed by Walter Lewis

at the

Cambridge University

Press

p [212];

• off-white heavy endpapers;
• all edges untrimmed;
• bound in black buckram, 18 bound in vellum (see notice of limitation), over beveled boards, back cover plain, front cover gilt stamped

THE LETTERS

of

ABÉLARD AND HÉLOÏSE

within single-rule border at edge with a bird with outspread wings in each comer 

• spine gilt stamped

rule

The

LETTERS

of

ABELARD

And

HELOISE

GUY

CHAPMAN

rule

• Colophon and notice of limitation p [iii]:

This edition is printed in the Monotype reproductions of the roman type

designed by Francesco Griffo of Bologna for Aldus Manutius,

and of the cursive of Antonio Blado. It is limited to 750 copies,

of which 18, numbered I to XVIII, are specially bound in vellum,

and 732, numbered 19 to 750, are bound in buckram.

The type has been distributed.

This copy is No. [numbered in ink]

Contribution by GM

Prefatory letter pp xiii-xviii, addressed to “My dear Moncrieff” and dated at end

121, Ebury Street,

London, S.W.I,

May 14th, 1925.

The book is dedicated (p [vii])

To my friend

GEORGE MOORE

who has made these dry

bones live

followed (pp x-xii) by a dedicatory letter to him.

B212a First American edition

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THE LETTERS OF

ABÉLARD AND HÉLOÏSE [title in red]

Translated from the Latin by

C. K. SCOTT MONCRIEFF

with a prefatory letter by

GEORGE MOORE

publishers device in red in frame of printer's ornaments in black

NEW YORK

ALFRED A. KNOPF

1926

all within a border of printer's ornaments

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Published 19 February 1926 at $3.00 in The Blue Jade Library

Description

Height: 8 in; 20.32 cm

Width: 5 3/8 in; 5.38 in; 13.65 cm

[1-18]8; pp xiv, 264;

• white endpapers with over-all design of printer’s ornaments in red where facing;
• top edges trimmed and stained red, fore and bottom edges untrimmed;
• bound with purple cloth sides, publisher’s device in blind in lower right corner of back cover, series device in blind in lower right corner of front cover,
• and red cloth spine gilt stamped

THE

LETTERS

OF

ABÉLARD

AND

HÉLOÏSE

rule and printer's ornaments

ALFRED A. KNOPF

 with design at top and bottom of rule, printer's ornaments and rule

Contribution by GM

Prefatory letter same as in first edition (B21-a). GM’s letter is omitted from all subsequent printings and editions of the Scott Moncrieff translation of The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse, both in England and the United States.