{"product_id":"14619-millay-edna-st-vincent-renascence-printed-on-william-morris-handpress","title":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent. (1892 - 1950) Renascence - PRINTED ON WILLIAM MORRIS' HANDPRESS","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eTall slim quarto pamphlet (pp. 16), light blue unprinted paper \u003cspan class=\"m_2351045442897307066glossaryQtip m_2351045442897307066qTip\" style=\"\"\u003ewrappers\u003c\/span\u003e, stitched. Housed in a custom crimson cloth chemise with gilt title to spine.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst separate edition, number 67 of an estimated 185 copies initialed by Frederic Goudy, of Millay’s famous poem, printed by Goudy on William Morris’ handpress.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eMillay’s “first great poem, ‘Renascence,’ was published in an anthology called \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eThe Lyric Year\u003c\/i\u003e in 1912. When a Young Women’s Christian Association education officer heard Millay read this poem, she helped obtain a scholarship for the talented girl to attend Vassar College” (ANB). It was later reprinted in \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eRenascence and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003ein 1917, Millay’s first book of poems. “In 1923 her third volume of poetry won the first Pulitzer Prize attained by a woman poet” (Library of Congress). During an exhibition at New York’s Anderson Galleries in March 1924 of William Morris’ handpress, on which the Kelmscott Chaucer had been printed, “renowned American type designer” Goudy and his wife printed copies of Millay’s poem to be “sold only during the exhibition” (Glaister, 200). Bruccoli \u0026amp; Clark, 267; Yost 22.  \u003c\/span\u003eInterior fine. Light staining around lower third of blue paper wrapper, with two-inch separation along the lower spine. A fine copy of a Millay scarcity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093556121759,"sku":"14619","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Vincent_Millay_Renascence_14619a.jpg?v=1722188816","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/14619-millay-edna-st-vincent-renascence-printed-on-william-morris-handpress","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}