B13 LOVING MAD TOM [1927]

LOVING MAD TOM | Bedlamite Verses | Of the XVI and XVII Centuries | With | FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY | NORMAN LINDSAY | [double flower and leaf device] | Foreword By ROBERT GRAVES | The Texts Edited with Notes By JACK LINDSAY | Musical Transcriptions By PETER WARLOCK | [double flower and leaf device] | THE FANFROLICO PRESS | FIVE BLOOMSBURY SQUARE | LONDON

Collation: [1]6 [2] –[14]4, 58 leaves.

p.[i] blank; p.[ii] This Edition is limited to | 375 copies, of which this is | No. [number written in over dots]; p.[iii] LOVING MAD TOM; p.[iv] blank; p.[1] title-page; p.[2] blank; p.[3] illustration; p.[4] blank; pp.[5]–[6] CONTENTS; p.[7] THE REDISCOVERY OF | ‘LOVING MAD TOM’; p.[8] blank; pp.9–20 text; p.[21] THE POEMS; p.[22] blank; pp.23–26 text; p.[27] illustration; pp.28–30 text; p.[31] illustration; pp.32–40 text; p.[41] illustration; pp.42–54 text; p.[55] THE MUSICKS; p.[56] blank; pp.[57]–[60] music; p.[61] NOTES AND COMMENTARY; p.[62] blank; pp.63–110 text; p.[111] colophon; p.[112] blank.

28.2 × 22.0 cm. Bulk: 1.1/1.7 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed and gilt. White wove endpapers. Both watermarked: 927 UNBLEACHED ARNOLD and MADE IN ENGLAND LINEN FIBRE. Bound in quarter vellum; front and back in light olive-green laid paper; back blank; front stamped in gold with picture of Mad Tom derived from illustration on p.[41]; spine stamped in gold: LOVING | MAD TOM

Price: 42s. Number of copies: 375. The colophon, p. [111], records the publication date as December 1927. According to Arnold, the actual date of publication is March 1928.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Rediscovery of “Loving Mad Tom” ’ (pp.9-20).

There was a facsimile reprint by Seven Dials Press, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 1969. Bound in red simulated-cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Issued in a white wove dust-jacket printed in red and black.

Another facsimile printing was produced by Augustus M. Kelly, Publishers, New York, 1970.

References: Arnold, Chaplin.