Caledonia. A Fragment - Being Lines Suggested by the Sound of A Pibroch or Bag-Pipe Played at an Early Hour in a London Square by an Indigent Scotchman Wearing the Plaid or National Dress of That Country and Composed by a Bachelor of Arts of the University of Oxford Now Resident in Bloomsbury, the Author being Indebted to Several Gentelmen for their Sympathetick Patronage and Original Communication and Especially to an Ingeniose Graduate of the Royal College of Musick for Certain Information Herein Contained and Selected from the Most Approved and Respectable Musickal Opinions of Our Time.

POWELL, Anthony.

Published by Privately printed. N.D. [1934], 1934

About this Item

First edition. Royal octavo. 12 pages. Cloth-backed Royal Stuart tartan patterned boards. 154 line poem, a ''pastiche''. Black and white frontispiece by Edward Burra. Fewer than 100 copies were printed. The author has made four corrections to the text. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the dedication page: ''And this copy is the property of Mr. Gerald Reitlinger, Gent. of Woodgate House in the County of Sussex, whose travels in Europe, Asia, Africka, the Americas, and furthest Antipodes have made him justly respected, presented by the author Anthony Powell - Feb. 20th. 1935, 25 Geo V''. In his autobiography, Anthony Powell mentions that Caledonia grew from a versifying game he used to play with Gerald Reitlinger, which makes this an especially significant association copy. Spine splitting and defective. Insides of covers spotted. Covers rubbed at the edges. Good. Not issued in dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caledonia. A Fragment - Being Lines Suggested by the Sound of A Pibroch or Bag-Pipe Played at an Early Hour in a London Square by an Indigent Scotchman Wearing the Plaid or National Dress of That Country and Composed by a Bachelor of Arts of the University of Oxford Now Resident in Bloomsbury, the Author being Indebted to Several Gentelmen for their Sympathetick Patronage and Original Communication and Especially to an Ingeniose Graduate of the Royal College of Musick for Certain Information ...
• Publisher: Privately printed. N.D. [1934]
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)