B25 EPILOGUE III 1937
EPILOGUE | A Critical Summary | Volume III – Spring 1937 | [swelled rule] | Editor: | Laura Riding | Associate Editor: | Robert Graves | [swelled rule] | Contributors to this Issue: | [sixteen names in two columns:] MADELEINE VARA ALAN HODGE | NORMAN CAMERON HONOR WYATT | SALLY GRAVES KARL GOLDSCHMIDT | BASIL TAYLOR ROBIN HALE | LUCIE BROWN JOHN ALDRIDGE | WILLIAM ARCHER HARRY KEMP | LAURA RIDING ROBERT GRAVES | WARD HUTCHINSON THOMAS MATTHEWS | [centred:] JAMES REEVES | [swelled rule] | THE SEIZIN PRESS · DEYA MAJORCA | AND | CONSTABLE & CO LTD | LONDON
Collation: [A]8 B–L8 M–N10O–Q8, 132 leaves.
p.[i] EPILOGUE; p.[ii] IN APOLOGY; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, publication and printer’s notices; p.v CONTENTS; p.[vi] epigraph of 3 ll.; pp.1–190 text; [gathering of 4 1eaves of coated paper, versos blank]; pp.191–257 text; p.[258] text and printer’s notice.
21.6 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 2.0/2.4 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. White laid endpapers. Bound in light red boards printed in black; back blank; front: [at left:] Twice a Year [at right:] Volume III | EPILOGUE | A CRITICAL SUMMARY | [cut of stage with temple prop, scroll, clouds] | Spring 1937 | Laura Riding [turned rule] Editor | Robert Graves [turned rule] Associate Editor | THE SEIZIN PRESS . DEYA MAJORCA | AND | CONSTABLE & CO. LTD. | LONDON | Seven Shillings and Sixpence net; spine: EPILOGUE | A | CRITICAL | SUMMARY | III | Spring | 1937
Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies unknown. Published in April 1937. Issued without dust-jacket. The price in the US was $2.50.
Notes: Graves’s contributions are ‘Politics and Poetry’ (with Harry Kemp and Laura Riding, reprinted as ‘Poetry and Politics’ [A63]) (pp.6–53), ‘The Theme of Fame’ (with Laura Riding, as Madeleine Vara, but see Note to B22) (pp.75–99), ‘From a Private Correspondence on Reality’ (with Laura Riding) (pp. 107–130), ‘At the Marble Table’ (retitled as ‘Lunch-Hour Blues’ in A48), ‘Parent to Children’, ‘The Exile’, ‘A Jealous Man’, ‘End of Play’, ‘The Halfpenny’ (pp.164–169), ‘Drama’ (with Alan Hodge and Laura Riding (pp. 193-226), reprinted as ‘Poetic Drama’ [A63]) and ‘Book-Advertising’ (pp.239–246).
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 B22 and B24 and other titles co-published by the Seizin Press and Constable. Also see note to A45.