Duineser Elegien =
Subtitle: Elegies from the Castle of Duino
By: translated from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by V. Sackville-West and Edward Sackville West.
Contributors: Sackville-West, V. 1892-1962.; Sackville-West, Edward, Hon., 1901-1965.; Kessler, Harry, Graf, 1868-1937; Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
Publisher: Printed for The Hogarth Press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Other titles: Elegies from the Castle of Duino; Duineser Elegien
Work titles: Duineser Elegien.
Notes: "Buff paper boards; vellum spine and corners; lettered in gilt ... Parchment paper dust jacket, unlettered.  Issued in an unprinted grey paper slipcase." -- Woolmer.

"Count Harry Kessler planned the format of this volume.  Eric Gill designed and himself cut on wood the initials."

"The whole edition consists of two hundred and thirty numbered copies for sale on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper ..., and signed by the translators; and eight numbered copies on vellum for sale with hand-gilded initials, signed by the translators."

Woolmer, 1986 ed., 268.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Jackman, Mary Rowell.

English and German on opposite pages.

Victoria University LIbrary copy has buff paper boards, vellum spine and corners, lettered in gilt; lacks signatures of translators, dust jacket and slipcase; stamped "out of series"; with photograph of Rilke attached to front endpaper.