B3 GEORGIAN POETRY 1918–1919 1919

GEORGIAN | POETRY | 1918–1919 | [three leaves] | [two leaves] | [leaf] | THE POETRY BOOKSHOP | 35 Devonshire Street | Theobalds Road | W.C. | MCMXIX

Collation: [1] – [13I8, 104 leaves.

p.[i] GEORGIAN POETRY; p.[ii] publication notice; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] TO | THOMAS HARDY; p.[v] PREFATORY NOTE; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]–[x] CONTENTS; p.[1] section heading; p.[2] blank; pp.3–191 text, with pp.[9, 15, 27, 37, 47, 57, 71, 79, 91, 95, 105, 113, 123, 127, 139, 155, 163, 177] being section headings and pp.[8, 10,14,16, 28, 38, 48, 58, 72, 80, 92, 96,106,114, 124, 126, 128,140,156, 164, 178] being blank; p.[192] blank; pp.193–196 BIBLIOGRAPHY; pp.[197]–[198] publisher’s advertisements.

18.7 × 12.8 cm. Bulk: 1.4/1.9 cm. White laid paper watermarked with a crown and: Abbey Mills | Greenfield; top edges only trimmed and gilt; fore-edges unopened. White wove endpapers. Bound in orange paper-covered boards; back blank; front stamped in gold: GEORGIAN POETRY | 1918–1919 | THE POETRY BOOKSHOP; spine stamped in gold: Georgian | Poetry | 1918–1919 | [inside a solid blue shield:] P [diamond] B

Price: 6s. Number of copies: 1,000. Published 15 November 1919 in an orange dust-jacket printed in black

Notes: Graves’s contribution is attributed in the index to Country Sentiment (A5). But in fact, that book was not published until March 1920. This is therefore the first book publication of the following poems: ‘A Ballad of Nursery Rhyme’ (pp.81–83), ‘A Frosty Night’ (p.84), ‘True Johnny’ (pp.85–86), ‘The Cupboard’ (p.87), ‘The Voice of Beauty Drowned’ (pp.88–89), and ‘Rocky Acres’ (p.90).

The title-page in some copies is a cancel.

The second impression of 1919 states on the title-page “SECOND THOUSAND” suggesting that the first impression was 1,000 copies.

There were several later impressions, an American issue, and a "Special Edition" of this title issued in 1923 is bound in orange cloth.

Reference: Woolmer/PBS