B32 AN OLD SAYING 1945

AN OLD SAYING | BY | ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE | [decorative swirl] | With a Foreword by | Robert Graves | [decorative swirl] | John S. Mayfifld | 1945

Collation: 6 leaves, stapled twice at centre.

pp.[1]–[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] copyright and printer’s notices; p.[5] NOTE; p.[6] blank; pp.[7]–[8] FOREWORD; p.[9] AN OLD SAYING | [decorative swirl]; p.[10] blank; p.[11] text of poem; p.[12] blank.

19.7 × 11.7 cm. Bulk: 0.1 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in cream laid wrappers; back blank; front printed: AN OLD SAYING | BY | ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Price: Not for sale. Number of copies: 35. Published in late summer 1945.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the foreword (pp.[7]-[8]); reprinted in A63.

John S. Mayfield, in his note to the 1947 edition of this work, says that the true first edition is a mimeographed one, done in spring 1945 on Saipan for interim copyright purposes only. That interim edition is as follows: AN OLD SAYING | by | Algernon Charles Swinburne | with a Foreword by Robert Graves | John S. Mayfield | In the Marianas Islands | 1945

Collation as above.

p.[1] title-page; p.[2] copyright notice; p.[3] NOTE [by Mayfield]; p.[4] blank; pp.[5]-[7] FOREWORD; p.[8] blank; p. [9] An Old Saying; p.[10] blank; p.[11] text of poem; p.[12] blank.

20.2 × 13.4 cm. Bulk: 0.1 cm. Wove paper. Bound in pink wrappers; back and spine blank; front mimeographed: AN OLD SAYING | by | Algernon Charles Swinburne

Note: Both Higginson and Higginson & Williams record the cover as being printed on laid paper. The copy I examined was printed on wove paper.