B48 EDWARD MARSH [1959]

EDWARD MARSH | PATRON OF THE ARTS | A Biography | BY | CHRISTOPHER HASSALL | [publisher’s emblem] | LONGMANS

Collation: π8 1 + /1*–22+/22*8/ 8 23 + /*/**2/4/8, 374 leaves.

p.[i] EDWARD MARSH | PATRON OF THE ARTS; p.[ii] blank; [frontispiece, back blank]; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, copyright, publication, manufacturing and printer’s notices; p.v CONTENTS; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–viii ILLUSTRATIONS; pp.ix–xvi PREFACE; pp.1–680 text; pp.681–703 appendixes; pp.704–707 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; p.[708] blank; pp.709–732 INDEX; illustrations appear between pp.64/65, 96/97, 224/225, 256/257, 416/417, 448/449, 626627.

22.2 × 14.5 cm. Bulk: 4.0/4.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained light blue. White wove endpapers. Bound in navy-blue cloth; back blank; front stamped in gold with facsimile autograph of Marsh; spine has light grey solid rectangular box near top, inside which: [rectangular decorative rule box enclosing 6 II.:] EDWARD | MARSH | A Biography | [three diamonds] | CHRISTOPHER | HASSALL | LONGMANS

Price: 42s. Number of copies: 9,870. Published 8 June 1959 in white dust-jacket printed in light blue and black.

Note: Graves’s contribution is letters, passim.