Shelfmark
Lb.4.40 - Lb.4.51, Lb.3.01 - Lb.3.109
Additional shelfmark
[Continuation shelfmark:] Lb.3.01-109
Title
Horizon : a review of literature and art / edited by Cyril Connolly.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Horizon, 6 Selwyn House, Lansdown Terrace, London, W.C.1 ; Horizon, 53 Bedford Square, W.C.1, 1940-1949.
Physical description
20 v. [numbers 1-121], plates : ill. ; 22cm.
Series statement
(Horizon)
Note
Published monthly.
Note
Complete run (vol 1, no.1 - vol 20, no. 121), including the French, Swiss, and American issues.
Note
Includes index of issue numbers 1-108 (Lb.3.109).
Note
Each issue has front advertisement leaves.
Note
Pagination continuous for each vol.
Note
Contributors include: W. H. Auden, A. J. Ayer, Cecil Beaton, Lord Berners, John Betjeman, Elizabeth Bowen, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Brian Howard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Laurie Lee, Louis MacNeice, Nancy Mitford, Henry Moore, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf.
Note
Advertisement for the 'National Council for Civil Liberties' tipped-in (vol III, no. 18).
Note
Loose advertisement for the magazine and subscription form (vol III, no. 17).
Formatted contents note
Partial contents: Partial contents: Vol XVI [16], no. 90 includes contributions by Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, Edith Sitwell, Kenneth Clark, Osbert Sitwell, Martin Turnell.
Numbering peculiarities note
No issue for March 1947; double issue in October 1947 numbered 93-4; final issue is double number for Dec. 1949 - Jan. 1950, numbered 120-121.
Provenance
Ms. bookseller's code and price in pencil (vol I, no. 1).
Provenance
Ms. bookseller's code in pencil (vol XVII, no. 98).
Provenance
Ms. inscription in pencil: "Bent" (vol VI no. 36).
Binding
10 light blue cloth boxes with dark blue leather labels with gilt lettering; one year per box; all vols with original printed paper wrappers.
Copy-specific note
ECL set includes copy of vol. IV, no. 21 (September 1941) [Lb.3.08]
Subject
English literature 20th century.
Subject
Literature 20th century.
Subject
Art 20th century.
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Auden, W. H., 1907 - 1973 (Wystan Hugh) contributor.
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Ayer, A. J., 1910 - 1989 (Alfred Jules) contributor.
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Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, 1904 - 1980 contributor.
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Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 1883 - 1950 Baron, contributor.
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Betjeman, John, 1906 - 1984 contributor.
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Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899 - 1973 contributor.
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Eliot, T. S., 1888 - 1965 (Thomas Stearns) contributor.
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Fleming, Ian, 1908 - 1964 contributor.
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879 - 1970 (Edward Morgan) contributor.
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Greene, Graham, 1904 - 1991 contributor.
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Howard, Brian, 1905 - 1958 contributor.
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Isherwood, Christopher, 1904 - 1986 contributor.
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Huxley, Aldous, 1894 - 1963 contributor.
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Lee, Laurie, 1914 - 1997 contributor.
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Macneice, Louis, 1907 - 1963 contributor.
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Mitford, Nancy, 1904 - 1973 contributor.
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Moore, Henry, 1898 - 1986 contributor.
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Russell, Bertrand, 1872 - 1970 contributor.
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Orwell, George, 1903 - 1950 contributor.
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Spender, Stephen, 1909 - 1995 contributor.
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Wells, H. G., 1866 - 1946 (Herbert George) contributor.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882 - 1941 contributor.
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Waugh, Evelyn Arthur, 1903 - 1966 contributor.
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Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904 - 1972 (Cecil) contributor.
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Sitwell, Edith, 1887 - 1964 Dame, contributor.
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Sitwell, Osbert, 1892 - 1969 contributor.
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Clark, Kenneth, 1903 - 1983 contributor.
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Turnell, Martin contributor.
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England London.
Identifier
B19777