<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A draft of XVI cantos of Ezra Pound : for the beginning of a poem of some length</dc:title><dc:creator>Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972</dc:creator><dc:date>1925.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>BEIN 1987 Folio 17: One of five copies on Imperial Japan paper. Prospectus with specimen of p 13 laid in. Presentation inscription to George Crawford from Muriel Draper.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 Copy 1: No. 31. From the library of William Carlos Williams.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 copy 2: No. 49. Bound in red vellum boards in 1928, similar to A draft of the cantos 17-27. London, 1928.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 Copy 3: One of at least six copies made up from extra and proof sheets and printed "author's proof" instead of number. Pages [1]-6, [11]-12 printed on Roma paper, the remainder on unwatermarked paper of inferior quality. In (original) plain wrappers. Was sent by author to Bride M. Gould-Adams Scratton.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 copy 4: No. 37. Ms. notes of Donald Gallup.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 copy 5: No. VII, printed for Viscountess Rothermere. Ms. notes of Donald Gallup.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN Za P865 +925 copy 6: Imperfect: slightly wormed, with no loss of text. No. IV, printed for Lincoln Steffens. Illegible inscription on front paste-down endpaper, dated 1925. Bound in vellum.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN YCAL MSS 868 Box 33: From the Sheri Martinelli papers.</dc:description><dc:description>"The edition of ninety copies consists of five on Imperial Japan paper autographed by the author lettered A to E, fifteen on Whatman paper numbered I to IX, and seventy on Roma paper specially watermarked numbered 1 to 70"</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>