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

A167 HOMER’S DAUGHTER AND THE ANGER OF ACHILLES [2001]:

First combined edition:

[seven lines within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | HOMER’S DAUGHTER | AND | THE ANGER OF ACHILLES | [rule] | Edited by Neil Powell | CARCANET

Collation: 286 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | Homer’s Daughter | The Anger of Achilles; 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, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; p. [v] – [vi] Contents; pp. [vii] viii-xiii Introduction; p. [xiv] blank; p. [1] Homer’s Daughter; p. [2] blank; p. [3] To Selwyn Jepson, of course; pp. [3] 4-9 PROLOGUE; p. [10] blank; pp. [11] 12-158 text of Homer’s Daughter, with pp. [15, 23, 36, 46, 55, 64, 74, 84, 92, 102, 110, 119, 129, 137, 149] being unnumbered; p. [159] THE ANGER OF ACHILLES; p. To Kenneth Gay | in gratitude for twenty-five years | of patient critical help; pp. [161] 162-178 INTRODUCTION; pp. [179] 180-451 text of The Anger of Achilles, with pp. [191, 209, 218, 228, 243, 253, 262, 273, 286, 296, 310, 318, 332, 341, 354, 368, 380, 390, 397, 405, 416, 425, 438] being unnumbered; pp. [452] – [458] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.1/ 4.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in 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:] HOMER’S DAUGHTER AND | THE ANGER OF ACHILLES | Edited by Neil Powell | [upright:] CARCANET

Price: £35.00. Number of copies undetermined. Published July 2001 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale brown, brown and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

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