SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A147 I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD ([1986]):

a. First English combined edition:

Collation: 424 leaves.

p. [i] PENGUIN BOOKS | I, CLAUDIUS | and | CLAUDIUS THE GOD | [a two-paragraph biographical note on Graves]; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation and printer’s notices; p. [1] CONTENTS; p. [2] blank; p. [3] I, CLAUDIUS | FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF | TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS | [facsimile signature] | EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS | BORN 10 B.C. | MURDERED AND DEIFIED | A.D. 54; p. [4] blank; p. [5] the Sibylline verses; p. [6] quotation (10 ll.) from Tacitus; pp. 7- [8] Author’s Note; pp. 9-395 [396] text of I, CLAUDIUS; p. [397] TREE OF THE | IMPERIAL FAMILY AND CONNEXIONS | TO THE YEAR A.D. 41 | GIVING NAMES AS ABBREVIATED | IN THIS BOOK; pp. [398] – [399] genealogical table; p. [400] blank; p. [401] CLAUDIUS THE GOD | AND HIS WIFE MESSALINA | THE TROUBLESOME REIGN OF TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS | CAESAR, EMPEROR OF THE ROMANS | (BORN 10 B.C., DIED A.D. 54), | AS DESCRIBED BY HIMSELF; | ALSO HIS MURDER AT THE HANDS OF THE | NOTORIOUS AGRIPPIA | (MOTHER OF THE EMPEROR NERO) | AND HIS SUBSEQUENT DEIFICATION, | AS DESCRIBED BY | OTHERS; p. [402] blank; pp. 403-404 Author’s Note; pp. 405-821 text of CLAUDIUS THE GOD; p. [822] blank; p. 823-835 The Pumpkinification of Claudius; p. [836] blank; p. [837] THE | ROYAL FAMILY | OF THE | HERODS; pp. 838-839 genealogical table; p. [840] blank; pp. [841] – [844] publisher’s advertisements, with p. [842] being blank.

19.7 × 12.5 cm. Bulk: 4.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in pale yellow, black, green and orange and with a colour photograph of Derek Jacobi as Claudius from the BBC TV production on the front cover.

Price: £5.95. Number of copies undetermined. Published 30 January 1986.

Notes: The text of I, Claudius follows that of A42j; the text of Claudius the God follows that of A43e.

Impressions: There were at least 13 impressions.

b. Second English combined edition ([1998]):

Collation: 376 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | I, Claudius | Claudius the God; p. [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing and Arts Council of England and printer’s notices; p. [v] CONTENTS; p. [vi] blank; pp. [vii] viii-xxii INTRODUCTION; p. [1] I, CLAUDIUS | FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS | BORN B.C. 10 · MURDERED AND DEIFIED A.D. 54 | [facsimile signature] | [medallion of Claudius]; p. [2] blank; pp. [3] 4 AUTHOR’S NOTE; pp. [5] 6-338 text of I, CLAUDIUS, with pp. [13, 25, 35, 41, 54, 68, 80, 85, 95, 102, 118, 129, 138, 147, 156, 166, 175, 180, 193, 205, 212, 227, 235, 244, 251, 259, 271, 279, 290, 302, 316, 326, 335] being unnumbered; p. [339] CLAUDIUS | THE GOD | and his wife | MESSALINA | The troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius | Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born | B.C. 10, died A.D. 54), as described by | himself; also his murder at the hands | of the notorious Agrippina (mother of | the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent | deification, as described by others; p. [340] blank; pp. [341] 342 AUTHOR’S NOTE; pp. [343] 344-707 text of CLAUDIUS THE GOD, with pp. [343, 354, 363, 373, 389, 406, 417, 428, 441, 451, 461, 470, 480, 495, 511, 522, 534, 545, 554, 563, 571, 583, 595, 608, 620, 632, 641, 658, 668, 679, 691, 703] being unnumbered and p. 541 being a map and text; pp. [708] 709-712 THREE ACCOUNTS OF CLAUDIUS’S DEATH; pp. [713] 714-725 THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF CLAUDIUS; pp. [726] – [727] TREE OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY | AND CONNECTIONS | (TO THE YEAR AD 54) | Giving names as abbreviated in this book; p. [728] –[729] THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE HERODS; p. [730] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.6/ 4.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers, outer sides printed pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] I, CLAUDIUS and | CLAUDIUS THE GOD | Edited by Richard Francis | [upright:] CARCANET

Price: £25.00. Number of copies: undisclosed. Published 24 November 1998 in a white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale grayish blue-green, grayish blue-green and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Notes: On 3 June 1999 Penguin Books issued an impression in paper covers of A147b under the title ‘The Claudius Novels.’ The introduction is by Nigel Spivey. This was reprinted in the Penguin Classics series on 26 April 2001.

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