{"id":2172,"date":"2013-05-03T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2013-05-03T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:36:59","slug":"a-great-gatsby-a-poor-speller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/a-great-gatsby-a-poor-speller\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Gatsby; a poor speller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the release of the 2013 remake of the film, I came across this copy of The Great Gatsby.<\/em><\/p>\n

This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby <\/em>is notable for several reasons. It is a first edition from 1925. However, what makes it truly unique is the inscription; Fitzgerald dedicated this copy to T.S. Eliot. Although an “enthusiastic worshipper” of the poet, Fitzgerald has misspelled Eliot’s last name:<\/p>\n

\"Copy<\/a>

Copy of the first edition of The great Gatsby inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to T.S. Eliot. Donated to the Brown University Library by Daniel Siegel ’57.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Eliot-1a\"<\/a>

Detail showing the notation regarding T.S Eliot’s comments.<\/p><\/div>\n

Written in pencil beneath the inscription is the barely discernible “Pencil comments by TSE.” Eliot read through the book, making comments in the margins in pencil throughout.<\/p>\n

It should also be noted that I photographed this book differently than many of the items I digitize. In DPS, we often photograph books in a book cradle, page-by-page. However, this book was digitized for inclusion in the updated History & Guide<\/em><\/a>, so I also provided photographs of the book as an object. I wanted to show the book as three-dimensionally as possible, and made a number of photographs showing it open in varying degrees, and from different angles.<\/p>\n

A favorite shot is below, where you can see the front of the book. I had to use special lighting (a raking light from the right) to illuminate the blind-embossed title and author text.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>

View of spine, back and front of book.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time for the release of the 2013 remake of the film, I came across this copy of The Great Gatsby. This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is notable for several reasons. It is a first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-collections","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}