| This work is a bibliographical study of the British printer, publisher, poet, and translator, John Rodker (1894-1955). The study consists of a historical and biographical account of Rodker's publishing activities under the five imprints he directed during his lifetime, the Ovid Press (1919-1922), the Casanova Society (1922-1926), John Rodker, Publisher (1927-1931), the Pushkin Press (1937-1954), and the Imago Publishing Company (1940-1955). The introduction is followed by a detailed descriptive bibliography, providing close, physical descriptions of each title issued by the first four imprints and a checklist of the works issued by the Imago Publishing Company. The descriptive bibliography was written based on the standards set out by Fredson Bowers in Principles of Bibliographical Description (New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1994). The significant writers and artists that Rodker published include, Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Edward Wadsworth. |
