B27 THE MODERN POET [1938]
The Modern Poet | an Anthology chosen and edited by | GWENDOLEN MURPHY | London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. | 44 Museum Street, W.C.I
Collation: π10 1–138, 114 leaves.
p.[i] The Modern Poet; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publication and printer’s notices; p.v PREFACE; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–x INDEX OF AUTHORS; pp.xi–xiv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; pp.xv–xx THE MODERN POET; pp.[1]2–143 text; p.[144] blank; pp.145–203 COMMENTARY; p.[204] blank; pp.205–208 INDEX OF FIRST LINES.
18.4 × 12.3 cm. Bulk: 1.4.1.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in medium blue cloth; back blank; front blind-stamped with heavy-rule rectangular box; inside light-rule rectangular box, inside which, stamped in white: THE | MODERN POET | an Anthology | Gwendolen Murphy; spine stamped in white: [heavy rule] | (light rule] | THE | MODERN | POET | [four dots] | Gwendolen | Murphy | Sidgwick | & Jackson | [light rule] | [heavy rule]
Price: 3s.6d. Number of copies: 30,000 (in many printings). Published 25 May 1938.
Notes: Graves’s contribution (pp.78–84) includes the first appearance of ‘The Wretch’ (p.81), later The Laureate’; there are also some notes on ‘The Wretch’ (pp.182–184).
B27 was also issued in stiff, medium blue paper-covered boards. Back blank; front printed in white with heavy-rule rectangular box; inside light-rule rectangular box, inside which THE MODERN POET | An Anthology | Gwendolen Murphy; spine printed in white, from bottom to top: THE MODERN POET
A second impression in cloth as the first was published July 1938.