B76 IRISH STRATEGIES [1976]

[flush left:] IRISH STRATEGIES | [large shamrock in orange, green and brown]

Collation: [1] – [11]4, 44 leaves.

p.[l] title-page; p.[2] [three lines in brown:] This first edition consists of | three hundred and fifty copies of which this is number [number written in] | [signature of Anthony Kerrigan] | [signature of Diarmaid O’Suilleabhain] | [signature of B. Childs]; p.[3] description of contents and statement of edition [Dolmen Editions xxi] and publisher’s emblem, printed in brown and black; p.[4] statement on reproduction of illustrations; p.[5] [in brown and black:] contents; p.[7] [flush left, printed facsimile of manuscript:] God does not love | Ulster as he did in the time of Cuchulain | — Robert Graves — | [printed in brown type:] Penned for this book in the Cafe Formentor, Palma. | Friday 19 January 1973.; p.[8] blank; pp.[9]–[10] [in brown:] mnemonic note to these histories; p.[11] chapter headings in brown and colour illustrations in green; p.[12] 5 ll. quote from Yeats’ ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ and, printed in brown, the citation; p.[13] colour illustration in brown, green, and orange; pp. 14–23 text; pp.[24]–[25] text and colour illustrations in brown and orange; p.[26] blank; p.[27] chapter heading in brown and colour illustration in brown, green and orange; pp.28–42 text; p.[43] text and colour illustration in brown, green and orange; p.[44] blank; pp.45–49 text; p.[50] Borges on revolution [printed in brown and black]; p.[51] section heading in brown and black and colour illustration in black, green and orange; pp.52–87 text; p.88 printing and limitations of sale statement.

24.0 × 16.6 cm. Bulk: 0.8/1.4 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed; top edges stained red. Green laid endpapers. Bound in green paper covered boards with brown morocco spine; back blank; front stamped in gold with image of Christ on the cross and a crescent; spine stamped in gold, top to bottom: borges [publisher’s emblem] irish strategies

Price: £15.00. Number of copies: 350. Published January 1976. Issued without dust-jacket in cardboard slipcase covered in green paper, with a white paper label on spine and front. On spine: [in red, top to bottom:] irish strategies; on front: [in black:] borges | [2 ll. in red:] irish | strategies | [in black:] [publisher’s emblem] | [in red:] xxi

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the statement about Ulster (p.[7]).

The book bears a copyright date of 1975, but reportedly was not published until January1976.