B1 WELSH POETRY OLD AND NEW 1912

WELSH POETRY | OLD AND NEW | IN ENGLISH VERSE | BY | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M. A. | (“CANWR CILARNĖ”) | PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY | LONDON REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CELTIC ASSOCIATION | MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF THE FOLK SONG SOCIETY | AND OF THE WELSH AND IRISH FOLK SONG SOCIETIES | AND MEMBER OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF CYMMRODORION | LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. | 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON | NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA | 1912 | All rights reserved

Collation: [a]6 b–c8 B–L8 M6, 108 leaves.

2pp. blank; p.[i] WELSH POETRY OLD AND NEW; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] dedication; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]-viii FOREWORD; p.[ix]x-xv PREFACE; p.[xvi] blank; pp.[xvii]xviii-xx CONTENTS; pp.[xxi]xxii-xlii INTRODUCTION; pp.[1]2-134 text, with pp.[13, 23, 42, 53, 64, 84, 97, 116] unnumbered; pp.[135]136-144 A NOTE ON WELSH METRES; pp.[145]146-170 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES; pp.[171]-[172] blank.

18.5 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 1.5/1.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in medium dull green cloth; back blank; front stamped: WELSH POETRY | OLD AND NEW | IN ENGLISH VERSE | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES | [near bottom, at right:] [two concentric circles, inside which a solid circular black box, in which a red lion rampant]; spine stamped: [double rule] 1 WELSH | POETRY | OLD & NEW | IN ENGLISH | VERSE | A.P. | GRAVES | LONGMANS | [double rule]

Price: 2s.6d. Number of copies: 2,000. Published 15 July 1912.

Notes: Graves’s contribution (p.139) is an englyn called ‘The Will O’ the Wisp’.

This book was also issued in paper covers: 18.0 × 12.4 cm. Bulk: 1.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in stiff, white paper covers over which is pasted an unprinted, dull grey-green paper wrapper; back blank; front has a rectangular white paper label printed in black: [single rule rectangular box enclosing all:] WELSH POETRY | OLD AND NEW | IN ENGLISH VERSE | ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES; on spine: [a rectangular white paper label printed in black:] WELSH | POETRY | OLD & NEW | IN ENGLISH | VERSE | A.P. | GRAVES