![SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Sonnets. [N.p.]: 'privately printed' [for the author], 1909. 4° (260 x 193mm). Title and text printed in red and black. (Some very light marginal browning.) Original cloth-backed blue boards (a little marked and rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04074_0180_000(010055).jpg?w=1)
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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Sonnets. [N.p.]: 'privately printed' [for the author], 1909. 4° (260 x 193mm). Title and text printed in red and black. (Some very light marginal browning.) Original cloth-backed blue boards (a little marked and rubbed).
FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF C. 50 COPIES. TITLED, ANNOTATED AND AMENDED IN PENCIL BY SASSOON. This work was based on the Sonnets and Verses which had been printed for Sassoon earlier in the year in an edition of c.35 ordinary and three special copies; all but one of the ordinary copies was destroyed by the author 'in a fit of self-criticism' (Keynes A3; the remaining copy is at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin). Eleven of the poems were reprinted in this edition (together with six new poems), which Sassoon described as 'drastically revised and rather sumptuously reprinted from the destroyed edition' (The Weald of Youth, London: 1942, p. 87). This copy is remarkable for the corrections and annotations: on [A]1r Sassoon has added a title in pencil reading 'SONNETS. BY LORD SIMON SNOOKS. [rule]'; nine of the seventeen poems have been corrected in pencil, some lightly, but in 'Perilous Music' virtually rewriting the octave; five of the poems are annotated below with the date on which they were published in the magazine Academy. Although the copy which Keynes describes is similarly amended and annotated (as are others that have been offered at auction), no other appears to bear a manuscript title incorporating the typically Sassoonian pseudonym of 'Lord Simon Snooks'. Keynes A4.
FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF C. 50 COPIES. TITLED, ANNOTATED AND AMENDED IN PENCIL BY SASSOON. This work was based on the Sonnets and Verses which had been printed for Sassoon earlier in the year in an edition of c.35 ordinary and three special copies; all but one of the ordinary copies was destroyed by the author 'in a fit of self-criticism' (Keynes A3; the remaining copy is at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin). Eleven of the poems were reprinted in this edition (together with six new poems), which Sassoon described as 'drastically revised and rather sumptuously reprinted from the destroyed edition' (The Weald of Youth, London: 1942, p. 87). This copy is remarkable for the corrections and annotations: on [A]1r Sassoon has added a title in pencil reading 'SONNETS. BY LORD SIMON SNOOKS. [rule]'; nine of the seventeen poems have been corrected in pencil, some lightly, but in 'Perilous Music' virtually rewriting the octave; five of the poems are annotated below with the date on which they were published in the magazine Academy. Although the copy which Keynes describes is similarly amended and annotated (as are others that have been offered at auction), no other appears to bear a manuscript title incorporating the typically Sassoonian pseudonym of 'Lord Simon Snooks'. Keynes A4.
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