Michael Roberts (ed.)
New Signatures. Poems by Several Hands, 1932
London: Hogarth Press
First edition. One of 600 copies.
1949
Octavo. 103pp. Represented in the volume are W. H. Auden, Julian Bell, C. Day Lewis, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, John Lehman, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, and A. S. J. Tessimond....
Octavo. 103pp. Represented in the volume are W. H. Auden, Julian Bell, C. Day Lewis, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, John Lehman, William Plomer, Stephen Spender, and A. S. J. Tessimond. New Signatures is No. 24 in the Hogarth Living Poets series, issued by the Press as among the more financially accessible and commercial arm of their publishing operations. The series editor was Dorothy Wellesley, herself a minor Modernist poet and close friend of W. B. Yeats. This particular entry is edited by Michael Roberts, who would go on to perform a similar, and now better-known, service to Faber in 1936. Bound in gilt-stamped blue paper over boards with yellow wrap band. Spine and uppermost edge sunned, edged and corners mildly rubbed, pale foxing to pastedowns, else very good, and likely better than most copies at this tier of Hogarth production. (Woolmer 306)