1941 Xf Hamish Hamilton edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: A11

Title page

[A]3r

MAKE BRIGHT | THE | ARROWS | A 1940 NOTEBOOK | [short double rule] | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY | [short double rule] | [Hamish Hamilton's mark] | HAMISH HAMILTON | LONDON

Imprint

[A]3v

Collation

[A]8 B-E8; [A]1 and E8 are pastedowns.

Pagination

[8] vii-viii [1-2] 3-10 [11-2] 13-27 [28-30] 31-42 [43-4] 45-54 [55-6] 57-65 [+5].

Technical description

Foolscap 4o: 8" × 5½", trimmed,white laid, no mark; 12 didot Walbaum (13+1pt. setting).

Notes

The author (b.1892) was an American poet; the title is a quotation from the Hebrew Scriptures, Jeremiah, 51:11; in Dec 1941 the U.S.A. joined World War II against the Axis powers.

The Curwen Library copy of the Hamish Hamilton edition lacked any publisher's casing, which needs to be described from another copy.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1941 Xfa Harper's edition

Copies examined

British Library: 11656.aa.54

Title page

[A]3r

[not yet examined] MAKE BRIGHT | THE | ARROWS | A 1940 NOTEBOOK | [short double rule] | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY | [short double rule]

Imprint

[A]3v

Collation

[A]8 B-E8; [A]1 and E8 are pastedowns. B.L.Cat: viii, 65, octavo.

Pagination

not yet checked.

Technical description

Foolscap 4o: 8" × 5½", trimmed,white laid, Flemish Book U.S.A.; casing, spine and corners black glazed cloth, boards in blue paper, printed label at head: ‘[triple rule] | MAKE | BRIGHT | THE | ARROWS | Edna | St Vincent | Millay | [rule] Harpers’,

Notes

Curwen Library copy of Xf lacked publisher's casing.

B.L. copy is of Harper's 4th edition, Xfa.

Paper watermarked 'Flemish Book U.S.A.' has been found in some other American printings of this author.Xfa.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 2013