Pratt, Marjory Bates. Formal designs from ten Shakespeare sonnets

General notes

Sonnets and corresponding designs on opposite pages "The designs in this book were constructed by means of a method intended to represent visually the basic sound-patterns of poetry. The method is my own but the shapes taken by the individual designs were determined wholly by the phonetic structure of the sonnets themselves. The designs therefore have a purely formal character."-Second leaf "This book has been set on the linotype in Egmont italic. The Roman numerals are Egmont capitals. The pages are printed in gray ink on Warren's Olde Style white laid paper. It is bound in Zeppelin cloth, with endpapers of Ticonderoga Text. The entire edition of 500 copies has been printed and bound by The Comet Press, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. Format by Melanie Thompson. This is copy No...."--Colophon

Item information about Folger Sh.Misc. 1128

Publisher's cloth cover, stamped in white. Copy no. 103 of 500. Manuscript note inside front cover: Review Copy