B6 CENOTAPH [1923]

CENOTAPH | A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE IN POETRY AND | PROSE FOR NOVEMBER THE ELEVENTH | COMPILED & EDITED BY | THOMAS MOULT | [publisher’s emblem] | The frontispiece from | a drawing by | JOSEPH PIKE | JONATHAN CAPE | ELEVEN GOWER STREET LONDON

Collation: [A]8B–O8, 112 leaves.

p.[1] CENOTAPH; p.[2] epigraphs from Euripides (3 ll.) and Shakespeare (7 ll.); [plate, back blank, facing title-page, of cenotaph in Whitehall]; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication, rights reservation and printer’s notices; pp.5–7 Contents; p. [8] blank; pp.9–11 Introductory Note; p.[12] blank; p.[13] transcription of memorial to the unknown soldier; p.[14] blank; pp.15–223 text; p.[224] blank.

17.9 × 10.3 cm. Bulk: 2.4/2.8 cm. Heavy white wove paper; top and fore-edges only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in plum-brown cloth; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; front stamped in gold with a wreath; spine stamped in gold: [broad decorative rule] | CENOTAPH | JONATHAN CAPE | [broad decorative rule].

Price: 5s. Number of copies undisclosed. Published in November 1923 in white dust-jacket printed in black.

Note: Graves’s contribution is ‘Peace’ (pp.52-53); it is listed here as having appeared in Fairies and Fusiliers (A3); but it did not appear in that book.