Robert Frost. A Considerable Speck, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, (Crane, A24), 1939.
Dates
- Creation: 1939.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Registration with the collection is required. Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only. Materials will be retrieved from and returned to storage areas by staff members.
Extent
From the Collection: 109 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Materials Specific Details
(Crane A24). A single folio gathering, measuring 387 X 295 mm., uncut, on cream wove paper watermarked 'HAND MADE'; countermark 'USA'. Contents: p. 1: cover title, as above; p. 2 blank; p. 3: (within a border rule made up on fly ornaments linke the single ornament on p. 1) text of the poem with a large initial 'A' in light brown; p. 4 blank. Publication: [from a layed in small broadside not included with the York Collection copy]...'This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost | at the Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. | It has been printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first | font of type that he has cut and cast himself, and is one | of his first pieces of printing. It is on hand-made paper, | made by him and his father, an authority on paper, with | whom he is associated at the Dard Hunter Paper Museum | at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | August P. Loring, Jr. | Recording Secretary.'
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Repository Details
Part of the Nicholson Library Special Collections Repository