A15 CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES OF POETRY 1925
a. First edition:
Contemporary Techniques | of Poetry | A POLITICAL ANALOGY | By | Robert Graves | [publisher’s emblem] | Published by | Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press | 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1 | 1925
Collation: [1]8 2–38, 24 1eaves.
p.[1] Contemporary Techniques | of Poetry; p.[2] publisher’s advertisements; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] TO | EDITH SITWELL | IN ALL FRIENDSHIP and printer’s notice; pp.5–46 [47] text; p.[48] printer’s notice.
21.7 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 0.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in light blue boards; back blank; front printed: THE HOGARTH PRESS | Contemporary Techniques | of Poetry | ROBERT GRAVES | [design of vase with columns at sides and grid beneath] | THE HOGARTH PRESS
Price: 3s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in July 1925.
Contents: The State of the Parties – Diction – Metre – Texture – Rhyme – Structure.
Notes: Issued as Hogarth Essays, Series 1, No. VIII. The design is by Vanessa Bell.
Woolmer/Hogarth reports that the Sussex ledger shows 303 copies sold by 30 January 1926.
Reference: Woolmer/Hogarth 63.
A15b. Second impression (1929):
Contemporary Techniques | of Poetry | A POLITICAL ANALOGY | Robert Graves | Second Impression | Published by | Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press | 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1 | 1929
Collation as A15a.
p.[1] Contemporary Techniques | of Poetry; p.[2] publisher’s advertisements for Hogarth Essays I—IX p.[3] title-page; p.[4] First published 1925. | Second Impression 1929. | TO | EDITH SITWELL | IN ALL FRIENDSHIP | Printed in Great Britain by |
LOWE AND BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD., PARK STREET, LONDON, N.W.1; pp.5–46 [47] text; p.[48] blank.
21.5 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 0.45 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in white boards; back blank; front printed as A15a.
Price: 3s. 6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1929.
Note: A photographic publication of the second impression was issued by Folcroft Library Editions in 1971 and again in 1977.