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"Amen Corner" in New Yorker "Conclusive Evidence"
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Nabokovians:
A bit of web sleuthing has led me to suspect that, for a while during the
30s? and 40s?, Oxford University Press published in London out of a house
known as Amen House, London, E.C.4. I further suspect that this house was
located on "Amen Corner" at the intersection of Paternoster Row and Ave
Maria Lane, behind St. Paul's Cathedral. My surfing turned up the following
entry at http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~arcbooks/jmaster.txt, a site for
"Antiquarian, Rare and Collectable [sic] Books":
"ELIOT (T.S.). [Cover title:] Milton. Annual lecture on a master mind.
Henriette Hertz Trust Of
the British Academy, 1947. Price 2s. 6d. net. From the Proceedings of the
British Academy.
Volume XXXIII. London: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Amen House, E.C.4, N.D. [1947].
Roy.8vo;
issued without prelims. or end-papers; 20pp., sewn as a single gathering
into grey wrappers,
cut flush, printed black outside and on inside front wrapper; a.e trimmed.
Wrappers slightly
embrowned at edges; nick in fore-edge of back wrapper; internally very nice.
£35.00
Probable second issue, a.e trimmed, and without yapped edges to the
wrappers. Gallup,
A49, noting no variants. One of 500 copies printed.
Ref. TEM13333"
I am no scholar. Perhaps someone more qualified than me can shed light as to
whether this volume specifically (and possibly even Milton) may have been a
referent in the Elmann title?
Respectfully,
Neil in San Francisco
Nabokovians:
A bit of web sleuthing has led me to suspect that, for a while during the
30s? and 40s?, Oxford University Press published in London out of a house
known as Amen House, London, E.C.4. I further suspect that this house was
located on "Amen Corner" at the intersection of Paternoster Row and Ave
Maria Lane, behind St. Paul's Cathedral. My surfing turned up the following
entry at http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~arcbooks/jmaster.txt, a site for
"Antiquarian, Rare and Collectable [sic] Books":
"ELIOT (T.S.). [Cover title:] Milton. Annual lecture on a master mind.
Henriette Hertz Trust Of
the British Academy, 1947. Price 2s. 6d. net. From the Proceedings of the
British Academy.
Volume XXXIII. London: Geoffrey Cumberledge, Amen House, E.C.4, N.D. [1947].
Roy.8vo;
issued without prelims. or end-papers; 20pp., sewn as a single gathering
into grey wrappers,
cut flush, printed black outside and on inside front wrapper; a.e trimmed.
Wrappers slightly
embrowned at edges; nick in fore-edge of back wrapper; internally very nice.
£35.00
Probable second issue, a.e trimmed, and without yapped edges to the
wrappers. Gallup,
A49, noting no variants. One of 500 copies printed.
Ref. TEM13333"
I am no scholar. Perhaps someone more qualified than me can shed light as to
whether this volume specifically (and possibly even Milton) may have been a
referent in the Elmann title?
Respectfully,
Neil in San Francisco