GRAVES, Robert
I, Claudius & Claudius the God
I, Claudius & Claudius the God
London: The Folio Society, 1994-1995
Illustrated by PACKER, Neil
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GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius, [together with] Claudius the God. London: The Folio Society, 1994-1995. First printings thus, published in uniform style. Each volume signed by the illustrator Neil Packer and personally (and rather humorously) dedicated to Folio Society's Former Production Director Joseph Wilfrid Whitlock-Blundell, with Mr Whitlock-Blundell's ex-libris bookplate affixed to half-titles. Accompanied by an original broadside published by the Poem-of-the-Month Club in 1970 featuring Graves' previously-unpublished poem "Advice from a Mother", signed by the author. Detailed specs for each item included below:
- GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius, from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born 10 bc, murdered and deified ad 54 [Latin inscription]. Introduction by Allan Massie, illustrations by Neil Packer. 252 × 160 × 32 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xviii, 1–349 [350]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 46, 63, 126, 143, 206, 223 and 303). Type: Centaur and Arrighi. Printed and bound by the Bath Press. Full green buckram with a repeat pattern in gold by Packer; cream endleaves with a genealogical table in green by Denys Baker. Green slip case. Condition: A near-fine copy, with binding square and firm, and pages clean and uninscribed; in a very good slipcase with a narrow discolouration strip around the opening and a little shelf-wear.
[together with]
- GRAVES, Robert. Claudius the God and his wife Messalina, the troublesome reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (born 10 bc, died ad 54), as described by himself; also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others. Introduction by John Mortimer, illustrations by Neil Packer. 251 × 162 × 33 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xiv, 1–400 [401–402]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 50, 67, 146, 163, 242, 259 and 394). Type: Centaur and Arrighi. Printed and bound by the Bath Press. Full purple buckram with a pattern in gold by Packer; pale grey endleaves with a genealogical table in dark blue by Denys Baker. Dark blue slip case. There is a map by Denys Baker on page [vi]. Condition: A near-fine copy, with binding square and firm, and pages clean and uninscribed; in a very good slipcase with a narrow discolouration strip around the opening and a little shelf-wear.
[together with]
- GRAVES, Robert. Advice from a Mother. London: Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd., 1970. Publisher's original broadside featuring Graves' previously-unpublished poem "Advice from a Mother", one of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Condition: Two small brown spots to left part of text frame on an otherwise fine sheet. During the period 1970-77 the Poem-of-the-Month Club issued an unpublished poem by one of its members each month. The first one thousand copies of each poem were signed personally by hand.
A rather special set indeed.
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