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185/210 COPIES signed by Omar S. Pound (who contributes the biographical note on his mother Dorothy Shakespear) and Charles D. Jones (the book's designer and printer), printed on Magnani Biblios Mouldmade white wove paper, each Canto with historiated initial, the letter itself printed in red, & numerous further monochrome decorations all by Shakespear, pp. [102], folio, original quarter tan morocco with red Japanese silk boards, cover with black stamp featuring artist and author's initials, matching slipcase with printed label to spine, fine. Around fifty Dorothy Shakespear designs published here for the first time, the majority for a new edition of the Cantos, following on from the initials which she provided for A Draft of XXX Cantos issued by the Hours Press in 1930. Owing to the Second World War, the project was never completed and it is to the credit of the two presses and all involved with the publication that these designs in 'an emphatically modern style, one invoking the angularity and bold simplicity of Vorticism and the calligraphic sweep of Chinese ideographs' have now seen the publishing light of day. They are 'eminently well suited to the expressive embellishment of the quintessentially modern text they were designed to illuminate.' (David A. Lewis, Preface) Dorothy Shakespear was the daughter of Olivia Shakespear, novelist and friend - briefly, the lover - of W.B. Yeats; it was she who introduced the latter to Ezra Pound, whom Dorothy married in 1914. Though a manifestly talented artist, one of only a few women to participate in the short-lived Vorticist movement that her husband had formulated, Shakespear never exhibited; her work, in a public sense, was largely restricted to cover-designs and illustrations for Pound's projects - and her energy was in general subordinated to his requirements, in literary, business and health matters, through good times and bad. Their marriage endured, though his mental and physical decline corresponded with their progressive estrangement.