B36 SATURDAY BOOK 8 [1948]

[flush left:] The Saturday | [left of centre:] Book | [7 ll. in mirror on stand:] being | the eighth annual | issue of this celebrated | cabinet of curiosities | and looking-glass of | past and | present | [remainder flush left:] edited by | LEONARD RUSSELL | the book designed by | LAURENCE SCARFE | HUTCHINSON are the publishers

Collation:[A]8 [B] – [C]4 χ8 D–M8 [N]4 O8 [P]4 Q–T8, 144 leaves.

p.[1] The Saturday Book 8th Year; p.[2] calligraphic portrait; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] epigraph, table of contents, publication, printer’s and engraver’s notices; pp.5–128 text, with pp.[15]–[48] and [97]–[112] being unnumbered; [foldout four-colour plate wrapped around H]; pp.129–288 text, with pp.[217–225, 233] being unnumbered.

22.9 × 14.9 cm. Bulk: 1.7/2.2 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; signatures [A, B, C, χ, G, N, P] on coated paper. Bound in bright orange cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: edited | by | Leonard | Russell | [down spine:] The Saturday Book – 8 | [upright:] HUTCHINSON

Price: 21s. Number of copies: 20,000. Published in October 1948.

Note: Graves’s contribution is ‘The Place for a Holiday’ (pp.90-94), about Deyá.