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SECTION B: Books and other publications with contributions by Robert Graves

B2 THE BRITISH SOLDIER 1918

[all flush left:] “THE BRITISH SOLDIER” | AN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES | BY ERIC H. KENNINGTON | (An Official Artist on the Western Front) | WITH A PREFACE BY | ROBERT GRAVES | ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS | THE LEICESTER GALLERIES | LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON | JUNE–JULY, 1918.

Collation: 8 leaves, unsigned, sewn three times in centre.

p.[1] title-page; p.[2] advertisement for artists’ supplies; pp.3-6 THE BRITISH SOLDIER; pp.7-16 Catalogue

13.3 × 10.3 cm. Bulk: 0.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in grey paper wrappers printed in black; front cover: ENTRANCE GALLERY AND REYNOLDS ROOM | [rectangular single rule box enclosing all but final line:] | [six lines flush left:] “THE BRITISH SOLDIER” | AN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES | BY ERIC H. KENNINGTON | (An Official Artist on the Western Front) | WITH A PREFACE BY | ROBERT GRAVES | ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS | (W. L. Phillips, C. L. Phillips, O.F. Brown) | THE LEICESTER GALLERIES | LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON | EXHIBITION Ho. 260. JUNE–JULY, 1918. PRICE THREEPENCE, [sic ‘Ho’]; inside front cover: advertisement for exhibit of watercolours by Capt. E. Handley-Read; inside back cover: advertisements for Colour; back cover: advertisement for official war publications.

Price: 3d. Number of copies: c. 1,200. Published in June 1918.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is The British Soldier’ (pp.3–6).

Of two copies examined, both were stapled twice at the centre.

Printed by Miles and Co. Ltd, Wardour Street, W.

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