POUND, Ezra Quia Pauper Amavi. London The Egoist Ltd (the De La More Press) [1919]...

POUND, Ezra Quia Pauper Amavi. London The Egoist Ltd (the De La More Press) [1919] Large 8vo (sl. foxing throughout). Publ. half green cloth, green paper boards (corners sl. rounded), printed paper label on spine. First edition. One of the 500 on wove paper. "Pound’s importance to the development of modernism lies not only in his own work but in his influence on the other major writers of the period, whom he cultivated and promoted in American little magazines like "Poetry" (of which he was the London correspondent) and "The Egoist" (of which he was the poetry editor) [...] he was arguably the most influential poet in establishing the canon of modern poetry and in articulating its aims" (The Egoist, Modernism Lab, Yale University, on line). Prov. B.H. Blackwell booksellers (label). - J.H. Vaughan-Davies, november 1941 (ms. entry).