Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti: with translations of them and an introduction by Ezra Pound

first English edition 8vo. [8], 135, [1 (printer's slug)], 32 (Swift's advts.)pp., original streaky grey cloth, front board and spine gilt lettered, edges untrimmed, free endpapers lightly toned, small pale mark (splash?) on front board, spine very slightly darkened, else a nice copy.

Gallup Pound Bibliography, B4
Published in both American and English editions in April and May 1912 respectively. The number of copies printed of the English edition is unknown but Swift went bankrupt later in 1912 and Pound himself "states in the bibliography of his work which he supplied for T. S. Eliot's anonymous Ezra Pound His Metric and Poetry (1917) that the bulk of this edition was destroyed by fire, presumably at the binders, where the sheets were being held as late as November 1914" [Gallup].
"Contents identical with the American edition, except for slight revisions in the Introduction and in some of the translations" [Gallup].
The medieval Italian poet Cavalcanti became "a strong influence on a number of writers associated with the development of Modernist poetry in English. This influence can be traced back to the appearance, in 1861, of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Early Italian Poets, which featured translations of works by both Cavalcanti and Dante. The young Ezra Pound admired Rossetti and knew his Italian translations well, quoting extensively from them in his 1910 book The Spirit of Romance. In 1912, Pound published his own translations under the title The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti and in 1932, he published the Italian poet's works as Rime. A reworked translation of Donna me prega formed the bulk of Canto XXXVI in Pound's long poem The Cantos" [wikipedia].