B39.4 MEMORY AND HER NINE DAUGHTERS [1956]

Memory and her nine daughters / the Muses : | a pretext for printing / cast into the mould of a dialogue | in four chapters / by Victor Hammer

Collation: 51 leaves.

4 pp. blank; p. i title-page; pp. ij-iij translation of vv. 53-84 of Hesiod’s Thegony: p. iv diagram (in rust); pp. 1-90 text printed in black and rust, with pp. 5, 29, 61 and 85 having two-colour initial letters printed in rust and blue p. [91] colophon: PRINTED AT THE STAMPERIA DEL SANTUCCIO | LEXINGTON / KENTUCKY/ MDCCCCLVI | OPUS 13 [printed number] —XXXV | AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM; pp. [91-94] blank.

Bindings vary. The copy examined: 27.7 ×19.7 cm. Bulk: 2.0/3.0 cm. White laid paper; top edges only trimmed. Bound in light tan paper-covered boards; front and back blank; spine with solid rectangle printed in rust upon which a light tan label printed in rust: HAMMER | FOUR DIA | LOUGES

Price: $60.00. Number of copies: 35. Published in 1956.

Note: Graves’s contribution is the translation from Hesiod (pp. ij-iij).

Reference: Holbrook.

In previous editions of this bibliography the second edition (1957) of this book was listed as B42, as below.

MEMORY AND HER NINE DAUGHTERS, THE MUSES, | a pretext for printing cast into the mould | of a dialogue in four chapters, by victor hammer. | GEORGE WITTENBORN, INC. | 1018 madison avenue, new york city, 21– new york. | MDCCCCLVII

Collation: π 4 a–i6, 58 leaves.

2 pp. blank; 1 p., title-page; 1 p., rights reservation notice; p.i half-title; pp.ij–iij translation of vv.53–84 of Hesiod’s Theogony; p.iv diagram; pp. 1–103 text; pp. 104–107 NOTES AND REMARKS; p.[108] colophon: two-hundred and fifty-two copies | have been printed at the hand press by | carolyn r. hammer | victor hammer has set the pages | number [square bracket] [number written in] [square bracket] | A + M + D + G

24.7 × 15.5 cm. Bulk: 1.4/2.1 cm. White laid paper; top edges only trimmed. Endpapers are a blank four-leaf sheet, top unopened, sewn in separately. Bound in paper–covered boards. Covers vary and are reproduced from pages of the first edition of this book (B39.4). One copy seen has p. 61 of the first edition as front cover and p. 64 as the rear cover. Another copy had p. 85 front and 88 rear. Front printed in black, blue and rust and catchword; back printed in rust and black with catchword; spine printed in rust, up spine: hammer : 4 dialogues

Price: $9.50. Number of copies: 252. Published in midsummer 1957 in light tan laid dust-jacket printed in black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the translation from Hesiod (pp.ij–iij).