B70 BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY [1968]

[cut of Zeus] | BULFINCH’S | [flush with ‘L’ in preceding line:] MYTHOLOGY | [four lines flush with ‘M’ in preceding line:] THE AGE OF FABLE | With a Foreword by | Robert Graves | Illustrated by JOSEPH PAP1N | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

Collation:[1]–[17]12, 204 leaves.

p.[i] BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY | The Age of Fable; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, rights reservation and printing notices; pp.[v]vi–viii AUTHOR’S PREFACE; pp.[ix]x–xii FOREWORD; pp.[xiii]xiv–xvi CONTENTS; p.[xvii] biographical note on Bulfinch; p.[xviii] blank; p.[xix] BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY | The Age of Fable; p.[xx] blank; pp.[1]2–376 text, with pp.[13, 21, 30, 40, 48, 55, 65, 72, 79, 84, 95, 102, 111, 120, 127, 135, 144, 150, 157, 166, 173, 184, 192, 202, 211, 219, 234, 243, 254, 265, 273, 283, 295, 308, 319, 327, 338, 347, 354, 362, 371, 374] being unnumbered; p.[377] INDEX OF NAMES; pp.378–383 index; pp.[384]–[388] blank.

20.7 × 13.7 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.7 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. White wove endpapers; outer sides blue. Bound in light ochre cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in black: THE AGE | OF FABLE | [light rule] | [heavy rule] | [down spine:] BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY | [upright:] [heavy rule] | [light rule] | DOUBLEDAY

Price: $5.95. Number of copies undetermined. Published 19 July 1968 in a white dust-jacket printed in multiple colorurs including blue, green, yellowish pink, yellow, brown and with text in red-brown and black.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the foreword (pp.[ix]x–xii).

There is a variant dust-jacket with the numbers “1431” as the last line on the back flap of the dust-jacket.