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Call Number:
MSS 17
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978
Title(s):
Azrael & Other Poems. Libanus Press, Hermitage, Newbury, Berkshire, 1978.
Date:
1978
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series II: Publications Designed or Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
Part of Collection:
volume Moss no. 102
Provenance:
Gift of Roger W. Moss, 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
First edition, Crown Quarto. Printed in hand-set 18 point Perpetua Italic. Limited to 200 numbered copies, one half printed on T. H. Saunders paper, the other on French Vélin Arches paper of which this is copy no. 140. Richard Shirley Smith's 'cone and ribbons' Libanus Press logo [1975; Bain no. 235] used on the colophon page and on the prospectus produced by the press, a copy of which is laid in. Sewn soft cover of uncut Barcham Green paper. According to the colophon, 'This collection of poems was first circulated in typescript by Sir Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1977. The author was approached for permission to print them in their present form and this was granted shortly before her death in May, 1978. This volume is dedicated to her memory.' A record for this item is also available in the <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:show="new" xlink:href="http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10431576">Yale University Library Catalog.</extref>
Physical Description:
Pp. [1-20] ; 290 x 198 mm
Finding Aid Title:
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5884.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396054
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2396054?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1