1933 Pf

Copies examined

British Library: 011641.df.34
Curwen Press: F38

Title page

[1]2r

YOUTH AT ARMS | BY | LEONARD BARNES | LONDON | PETER DAVIES | 1933

Imprint

[1]2v

Collation

[1]4 [2-5]8 [6]4.

Pagination

[10] 3-18 [19-20] 21-43 [44-6] 47-58 [59-60] 61-71 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 8(+6)pt. Baskerville; casing, dark green cloth, gold-blocked up spine: ‘BARNES: YOUTH AT ARMS’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

Collected poems; see Simon 1956 p.94, 99: 'the only occasion on which it was possible to persuade a publisher to let us set poetry in a small size of type with plenty of white between the lines in an attempt to achieve both elegance and legibility'.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963