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Auction archive: Lot number 59

SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," n.p., 1904. 16 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos of 14 lined sheets (and on two versos), a working draft with numerous revisions, signed and dated at en...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$483
Auction archive: Lot number 59

SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," n.p., 1904. 16 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos of 14 lined sheets (and on two versos), a working draft with numerous revisions, signed and dated at en...

Auction 12.11.1997
12 Nov 1997
Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$483
Beschreibung:

SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," n.p., 1904. 16 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos of 14 lined sheets (and on two versos), a working draft with numerous revisions, signed and dated at end, with special calligraphic title-page and typed transcript (with red initials and with the poetic quotations executed in a calligraphic hand); bound in brown morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt-lettered, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe . Among the poets and translators discussed by Symons are Edward Fitzgerald Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Dryden.

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

SYMONS, ARTHUR. Autograph manuscript signed of the essay "The Art of Translation in Prose and Poetry," n.p., 1904. 16 pages, 4to, in ink on rectos of 14 lined sheets (and on two versos), a working draft with numerous revisions, signed and dated at end, with special calligraphic title-page and typed transcript (with red initials and with the poetic quotations executed in a calligraphic hand); bound in brown morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt-lettered, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe . Among the poets and translators discussed by Symons are Edward Fitzgerald Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Dryden.

Auction archive: Lot number 59
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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