B38 EDDIE MARSH [1953]

Eddie Marsh | SKETCHES FOR A COMPOSITE LITERARY PORTRAIT OF | SIR EDWARD MARSH K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G. | Compiled by | CHRISTOPHER HASSALL | and | DENIS MATHEWS | Published by LUND HUMPHRIES | for the | CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY | The Tate Gallery, London SW 1

Collation: [1]–[2]8 [3]10, 26 leaves.

p.[1] EDDIE MARSH; p.[2] facsimile of MS; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publication and printer’s notices; p.5 CONTENTS; p.6 ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.7–8 NOTE; p.9 FOREWORD; pp.10–11 Introduction; p.[12] blank; pp. 13–51 text; p.[52] blank; plates as follows: one leaf, printed both sides, tipped between pp.16/17; two leaves, printed four sides, sewn between pp.24/25; one leaf, printed both sides, tipped between pp.32/33; two leaves, printed four sides, sewn between pp.42/43.

22.8 × 15.1 cm. Bulk: 0.6 cm. Cream wove paper watermarked: Basingwerk Parchment; all edges trimmed. Issued in white paper covers with white wrapper printed in black and light yellow-green; front printed with a photo of Marsh, below which in a green band: [in white:] Eddie Marsh | SKETCHES FOR A COMPOSITE LITERARY PORTRAIT OF | SIR EDWARD MARSH, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G. | [bar] | Lund Humphries; back blank; spine, top to bottom: [in white to dot] EDDIE MARSH ∙ Sketches for a Composite Literary Portrait

Price: 7s.6d. Number of copies: 2,500. Published 5 May 1953.

Note: Graves’s contribution is a biographical memoir (pp. 25–26).