B21 LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES 1935
LIVES OF THE | ROMAN EMPRESSES | THE HISTORY OF THE LIVES AND SECRET | INTRIGUES OF THE WIVES, SISTERS AND | MOTHERS OF THE CAESARS | By | JACQUES BOERGAS de SERVIEZ | With An Introduction by | ROBERT GRAVES | Author of ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Claudius the God’, etc. | Illustrated | [publisher’s emblem] | WM. H. WISE & CO. | 1935
Collation: [1] – [27]16, 432 leaves.
2 pp., uncounted (recto: LIVES OF THE | ROMAN EMPRESSES; verso: blank); [frontispiece, back blank, tipped to p.[i]]; p.[i] title-page; p.[ii] copyright and printing notices; pp.iii–iv CONTENTS; p.vi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.vii–ix INTRODUCTION TO THE | LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPRESSES | By Robert Graves; pp.xv–xvi AUTHOR’S PREFACE; pp.xvii–xxiii historical note and chronological table; p.[xxiv] blank; p.[1] LIVES OF THE | ROMAN EMPRESSES; p.[2] blank; pp.3–812 text; pp.813–834 INDEX; pp.[835]–[838] blank; illustrations face pp.6, 38, 166, 198, 294, 326, 486, 518, 678, 710.
21.1 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 4.7/5.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained purple. White wove endpapers. Bound in purple cloth; back blank; front blind-stamped with fasci and a vertical band of dancing nymphs; spine has blind-stamped fasci, circles, rules and solid rectangular boxes and is printed in silver: LIVES | of the | ROMAN EMPRESSES | DE SERVIEZ | WISE & CO.
Price: $2.90. Number of copies unknown. Published c. January-February 1935 in powder-blue dust-jacket printed in orange-red and purple.
Notes: Graves’s contribution is the introduction (pp.vii–xiv).
The two previous editions of this bibliography give August 1935 as the date of publication. Copyright records show a date of copyright as 25 January 1935. The book was advertised in the Washington Post on 3 February 1935, p. B6 and reviewed in Time magazine on 25 February 1935, p. 72.
An English issue of B21, using the American sheets, was published by Putnam, London. The book is bound in purple cloth, stamped in gold on the spine. In cream dust-jacket printed in purple and black and priced 10s. 6d.