B17 THE HOGARTH ESSAYS 1928

THE HOGARTH ESSAYS | [publisher’s emblem] | DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY | INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 1928

Collation: [1] – [2018 [21]4 [22]8, 172 leaves.

p.[i] THE HOGARTH ESSAYS; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] rights reservation, printer’s and edition notices; pp.v–vi Publisher’s Note; p.[vii] Contents; p.[viii] blank; p.[1] section heading; p.[2] blank; pp.3-336 text, with pp.[31, 49, 67, 109, 133, 161, 195, 241, 277, 305] being unnumbered section headings and pp.[30, 48, 50, 110, 132, 134, 160, 162, 194, 196, 198, 240, 242, 278, 304, 306] being blank and pp.[32] and [68] being unnumbered epigraphs.

20.4 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 2.7/3.2 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed. Cream wove endpapers; insides printed with watermark-like design in grey of waved chain and wire lines. Bound in cream boards with light gunmetal-blue cloth spine; back blank; front printed with basket of flowers in purple and green; spine has cream paper label: [in purple:] THE | [in green:] HOGARTH | [in purple:] ESSAYS

Price: $3.00 Number of copies unknown. Published 28 September 1928 in a tan dust-jacket printed in purple and green.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Future of the Art of Poetry’ (pp. 163–193), a revision of Another Future of Poetry (A19).

The basket of flowers depicted on the front cover and dust-jacket has been attributed to Vanessa Bell.

There was a reprint of B17 in 1970 issued by Books for Libraries Press.