B15 THE OXFORD BOOK OF CAROLS 1928
The | Oxford Book of | Carols | By | Percy Dearmer | R. Vaughan Williams | Martin Shaw | Oxford University Press | London: Humphrey Milford | [at left: a Christian cross] 1928
Collation: [a]8 b/b22/8 B/B2–Q/Q22/6 R4, 142 leaves.
p.[i] The | Oxford Book of | Carols; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] edition and publisher’s notices; pp.[v]vi–xxxiv PREFACE; pp.[xxxv]–xxxvi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp.[1]2–237 text; p.[238] blank; pp.[239]–240 INDEX OF AUTHORS, SOURCES, &c.; pp.[241]242–245 INDEX OF FIRST LINES; pp.[246]247–248 INDEX OF TITLES.
16.7 × 11.3 cm. Bulk: 1.7/2.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in light cherry cloth; front and back blind-stamped with design of five circles with bells and large cross; spine stamped in gold: The Oxford | Book of | Carols | Oxford
Price: 4s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in April 1928 in beige, blue-flecked dust-jacket printed in red.
Notes: Graves’s contributions are No. 80 ‘Three Kings’, translation of a Flemish carol, and No. 84 ‘The Cradle’ translation of an Austrian carol. Copies for sale in the U.S. were furnished in dust-jackets priced in dollars.
The book exists in three editions: a complete music edition, a complete words edition and a cheap edition (words only, without footnotes). The complete words edition is described above; it precedes the others by some six months.