A171 THE STORY OF MARIE POWELL, WIFE TO MR MILTON and THE ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM [2003]:

First combined edition:

[seven lines within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | THE STORY OF MARIE POWELL, | WIFE TO MR MILTON AND | THE ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM | [rule] | Edited by Simon Brittan | [at foot:] CARCANET

Collation: 423 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr Milton | The Islands of Unwisdom; 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-xxiii Introduction; p. [xxiv] Sources of Further Reading; p. [1] [within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] WIFE TO MR MILTON; p. [2] map; pp. [3]-330 text of Wife To Mr Milton, with pp. [5, 16, 29, 42, 53, 65, 77, 87, 98, 109, 119, 129, 143, 156, 168, 180, 194, 205, 221, 236, 249, 259, 273, 289, 305, 317, 320, 324] being unnumbered and p. [316] blank; p. [331] [within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] THE ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM; pp. [332]-616 text of The Islands of Unwisdom, with pp. [333, 335, 339, 347, 358, 368, 381, 390, 402, 415, 425, 434, 447, 458, 468, 480, 490, 501, 512, 523, 533, 546, 557, 570, 581, 591, 601, 609, 615] being unnumbered and p. [338] blank; p. 616 text and 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: 4.2/4.7 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 | THE STORY OF MARIE POWELL, | WIFE TO MR MILTON | and | THE ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM | Edited by Simon Brittan | [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 magenta, magenta and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.