B11 MERCURY BOOK I 1926

.. THE .. | MERCURY BOOK | Being selections from Volumes I & II | of the London Mercury, made by | H.C.M. | London: | WILLIAMS & NORGATE, Ltd., | 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2 | [rule] | 1926

Collation: [A]8B–U8, 160 leaves.

p.[i] THE MERCURY BOOK; p.[ii] blank; [frontispiece, recto blank]; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] PREFATORY NOTE; pp.[vi]–[vii] EDITOR’S NOTE; pp.[viii] – [ix] CONTENTS; p.[x] blank; pp.1–309 text, with pp.[33, 65, 86, 136, 170, 204, 254, 291] being unnumbered; p.[310] blank.

21.3 × 16.8 cm. Bulk: 3.3/3.9 cm. Heavy white wove paper; top edges only trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in light orange cloth; back blind-stamped with publisher’s emblem; front stamped in black: THE | MERCURY BOOK | [head of Mercury]; spine stamped in black: THE| MERCURY | BOOK | WILLIAMS & NORGATE

Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in November 1926 in light orange dust-jacket printed in black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘A Country Mood’ (p.205).

The editor, identified only by his initials on the title-page, is H. Cotton Minchin.