B22 EPILOGUE I 1935

EPILOGUE | A Critical Summary | Volume I – Autumn 1935 | [swelled rule] | Editor: | Laura Riding | Assistant-Editor: | Robert Graves | [swelled rule] | Contributors to this Issue: | [ten names in two columns:] MADELEINE VARA LAURA RIDING | JAMES REEVES ROBERT GRAVES | THOMAS MATTHEWS HONOR WYATT | JOHN CULLEN JOHN ALDRIDGE | LEN LYE WARD HUTCHINSON | [swelled rule] | THE SEIZIN PRESS ∙ DEYA MAJORCA | AND | CONSTABLE & CO LTD | LONDON

Collation: [A]8 B–Q8,128 leaves.

p.[i] EPILOGUE; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] printer’s notice; p.v CONTENTS; p.[vi] epigraph of 3ll.; pp.1–218text; [gathering of 4 leaves of coated paper, all versos blank]; pp.219–236 text; [plate of photograph tipped in, verso blank]; pp.237–245 text; p.[246] Seizin Press advertisement; pp.[247] – [248] blank; pp.[249] – [250] blank as pastedown endpaper.

21.6 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 1.7/2.1 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. White laid front endpaper. Bound in buff boards printed in black; back blank; front: [at left:] Twice a Year [at right:] Volume I | EPILOGUE | A CRITICAL SUMMARY | [cut of stage with temple prop, scroll, clouds] | AUTUMN 1935 | Laura Riding [turned rule] Editor | Robert Graves [turned rule] Associate Editor | THE SEIZIN PRESS . DEYA

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Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in November 1935. Issued without dust-jacket. Distributed in the US by Random House at $2.50.

Notes: Graves’s contributions are A Poem-Sequence: ‘To the Sovereign Muse’ (‘The Challenge’, ‘Fiend, Dragon, Mermaid’, ‘To the Sovereign Muse’, ‘Green Loving’ [later titled ‘Variables of Green], ‘Like Snow’) (pp.87–92), ‘Germany’ (signed M[adeleine] V[ara], a house pseudonym, and reprinted as ‘Nietzsche’ [A63 and A75b–c]) (pp.113–125), ‘Coleridge and Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley’ (pp. 157–174) and ‘A Note on the Pastoral’ (reprinted as ‘The Pastoral’ [A63]) (pp. 200–207).

Madeleine Vara was a house pseudonym, but see Laura (Jackson) Riding, Denver Quarterly (1974), 5–6: ‘This name ... I introduced into Epilogue as other-signature for writings of mine. A piece of writing on Nietzsche in Epilogue [i.e. B22] is included in Robert Graves’ collection of “his” critical writings The signature of the piece is “M.V.”. It was of my writing, as was everything else of that signature, full or abbreviated.’

The design on the front cover is from an engraving by John Aldridge.

This book was distributed in the US by Random House, as were B24 and B25 and other titles co-published by the Seizin Press and Constable. Also see note to A45.