B49 LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHOLOGY [1959]

LAROUSSE | ENCYCLOPEDIA OF | [in red-brown:] MYTHOLOGY | [cut of frieze] | With an Introduction by | ROBERT GRAVES | LONDON | BATCHWORTH PRESS LIMITED

Collation: [1] –[31]8 [32] –[33]4, 256 leaves.

p.[i] LAROUSSE | ENCYCLOPEDIA OF | MYTHOLOGY; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] series, translator’s, publication, publisher’s and copyright notices; pp.v–viii INTRODUCTION; pp.[ix]–[x] CONTENTS; p.[xi] LIST OF COLOUR PLATES; p.[xii] cut; pp.[1] 2–492 text, with pp.[8–9, 12–13, 15, 18, 20–23, 29, 33, 38–39, 44–45, 49, 61, 64–65, 73, 87, 89–90, 93–95, 97, 101, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 127, 134, 143, 145, 147, 152–153, 156–157, 161–163, 166–168, 176–177, 179, 185, 188, 192–195, 202–205, 208–209, 213, 223–224, 228–230, 234–235, 251, 253, 256–257, 262–263, 280–281, 293, 295, 306–308, 311–314, 321–323, 334–335, 339–341, 344, 356–357, 369–375, 382, 385, 387–391, 393, 406–407, 412–413, 432–433, 441, 448–449, 456–459, 466–467, 470–471, 473, 480, 483, 490, 493, 495] being unnumbered and with colour plates facing pp.36, 100, 212, 244, [356], 404, 420, 452; pp.[493]–494 A SELECTED LIST FOR FURTHER READING; pp.[495] 496–500 INDEX OF NAMES.

28.7 × 20.2 cm. Bulk: 2.8/3.5 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Photographic white wove endpapers; inner sides of free endpapers blank. Bound in mustard cloth; back blank; front stamped with bull and with black band at right, mustard spelling out MYTHOLOGY from top to bottom; spine stamped in black: M|Y|T|H|O|L|O|G|Y| BATCH-| WORTH | PRESS

Price: 63s. Number of copies: unknown. Published 4 September 1959 in white dust-jacket printed in red, black and yellow.

Note: Graves’s contribution is the introduction (pp.v–viii).