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Forked Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems

Ezra Pound
Charlotte Ward, editor
James Laughlin, introduction

85pp.; 28.4 x 17.6 cm. Decorative-paper covered blue cloth boards with deckle edge. Printed on Rives Heavy, a French mouldmade paper.

Published Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1985

Part of Ezra Pound, IV.

One of 200 copies, a private press production of Pound’s medieval poems (troubadours, anonymous Anglo-Saxon, Guido, Petrach, and Walther von der Vogelweide) and rightly fancy; pretty, soft cream paper, fore-edge and bottom-edges rough, printed by hand from handset Romanée and Lutetia types, with frontispiece of a wood-engraving by Dellas Henke after a watercolour by Dorothy Shakespear. Spine faded, one small white blemish to front cover, otherwise fine.