A172 THE GOLDEN FLEECE and SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE [2004]:
First combined edition:
[six lines within a swelled rule cartouche:] Robert | Graves | THE GOLDEN FLEECE AND | SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE | [rule] | Edited by Patrick J. M. Quinn | [at foot:] CARCANET
Collation: 316 leaves.
p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | The Golden Fleece | Seven Days in New Crete; 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]-[vii] Contents; p. [viii] blank; pp. [ix]x-xxiv Introduction; p. [1] [within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] THE GOLDEN FLEECE; pp. [2-3], 4-414 text of The Golden Fleece, with pp. [6, 22-23, 32, 41, 50, 59, 68, 73, 80, 89, 96, 102, 110, 121, 127, 134, 143, 150, 156, 162, 167, 175, 181, 191, 198, 204, 210, 215, 223, 229, 234, 241,251, 259, 268, 277, 283, 291, 298, 307, 316, 324, 332, 340, 347, 354, 361, 368, 373, 379, 390, 395, 407-413] being unnumbered and pp. 407 and 414 blank; p. [415] within a single rule rectangular frame with decorative ends:] SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE; p. [416] blank; pp.[417] 418-608 text of Seven Days in New Crete, with pp. [425, 432, 441, 448, 460, 466, 477, 484, 491, 503, 514, 520, 527, 537, 546, 556, 563, 571, 580, 589, 599] being unnumbered.
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 GOLDEN FLEECE | and SEVEN DAYS IN NEW CRETE | Edited by Patrick J. M. Quinn | [upright, at foot:] CARCANET
Price: £39.00. Number of copies: 200. Published February 2004 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale brown, brown and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.
Note: The limitation notice is a white label printed in black and affixed to the inner side of the back endpaper: A limited edition of 200 copies were printed. | This is copy number | [number stamped in] | of 200