A170 ‘ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE’ and THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY [2003]:

First combined edition:

[seven lines within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | ‘ANTIGUA, PENNY PUCE’ and | THEY HANGED MY | SAINTLY BILLY | [rule] | Edited by Ian McCormick | [at foot:] CARCANET

Collation: 233 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’ | They Hanged My Saintly Billy; 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; pp. [v]-[vi] Contents; pp. [vii]viii-xxviii Introduction; p. [1] [within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] ‘Antigua, Penny, Puce’; p. [2] To William Fuller | in Gratitude; pp. [3] 4-203 text of ‘Antigua, Penny Puce’, with pp. [11, 19, 26, 38, 48, 61, 68, 79, 88, 112, 120, 132, 136, 146, 157, 164, 171, 179, 185, 196] being unnumbered; p. [204] blank; p. [205] [within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY; p. [206] blank; pp. [207]- 437 text of ‘They Hanged My Saintly Billy’, with pp. [211, 217, 226, 236, 247, 253, 265, 275, 285, 294, 302, 311, 323, 331, 228, 249, 358, 368, 378, 391, 400, 407, 422, 432] being unnumbered and pp. [210] and [438-439] blank; p. [440 blank, but with a white label printed in black affixed: A limited edition of 500 copies of this book were printed, | of which 400 were numbered. | This copy is number | [number stamped in] of 460

21.5 ×13.5 cm. Bulk: 3.3/4.1 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 | ‘ANTIGUA, PENNY, PUCE’ and | THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY | Edited by Ian McCormick | upright, at foot:] CARCANET

Price: £35.00. Number of copies: 500, of which 460 were numbered. Published January 2003 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale green, green and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.