Sigla Books

London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. No date (or even a copyright page), which indicates that it is indeed the first printing. Frontis, title page, and 11 plates by FD Bedford. For my dear sister, Lydia Jane, and so not for sale.

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This is the first incarnation of Life and Letters, edited by Desmond MacCarthy. Dorothy Edwards' The Problem of Life was published here several months before she committed su***de.

In honour of Georgie's birthday, I thought I'd share this fairly scarce item published by Proa (1996).

Apart from cofounding with John Lane The Bodley Head (the book-selling and publishing firm named after a bust of the eponym of The Bodleian Library, and the one responsible for publishing the scandalous Yellow Book) Elkin Mathews was the first to publish James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Lane and Mathews parted company in 1894, with EM reverting mainly to book-selling until his death in 1921. For mysterious reasons (to me, at least) the imprint was renamed Elkin Mathews & Marrot, continuing that way even after the business had been taken over by Percy Muir in 1930. The above is from the title page of Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishermen (1929).