B80 ROBERT GRAVES HIS LIFE AND WORK [1982]

Robert Graves | [long rule] | HIS LIFE AND WORK | Martin Seymour-Smith | HUTCHINSON | London Melbourne Sydney Auckland Johannesburg

Collation: 311 leaves.

p. [i] Robert Graves | [publisher’s emblem]; p. [ii] list of books by Seymour-Smith; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publication, edition, copyright, printer’s and BL cataloguing notices; p. [v] in memoriam; p. [vi] blank; pp. [vii]-[viii] Contents; p. ix Illustrations; p. x blank; p. xi-xii Introduction; pp. xiii-xiv Acknowledgements; pp. 1-568 text [with pp. 11, 30, 44, 53, 72, 79, 102, 121, 130, 143, 152, 169, 185, 200, 222, 240, 264, 281, 298, 310, 328, 352, 376, 388, 423, 439, 456, 489, 549, 568 being unnumbered] and two leaves of illustrations inserted between pp. 194-195 and 386-387; pp. 569-[578] Notes; pp. 579-[584] Books by Robert Graves; pp. 585-[608] Index.

23.3 × 15.5 cm. Bulk: 4.1/4.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in navy simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in silver, top to bottom: Robert | Graves | [long rule] | His Life and Works | MARTIN | SEYMOUR- | SMITH | [publisher’s emblem] | HUTCHINSON

Price: £14.95. Number of copies unknown. Published 10 May 1982 in white wove dust-jacket printed in blue, black, grey and yellowish pink.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is his poem ‘Assumption Day’ (p. 315).

The photo of Graves on the front of the dust-jacket is by Roberta Booth.